For some highly interesting and hardly known facts on Renato Gigli's life and career, read the recollections of Giuseppe Tomaselli.
I would like to thank Thomas Silverbörg for the recording.
Tosca – Roma, Eliseo 12 October 1927 La bohème – Roma, Excelsior, 18 June 1933 La Gioconda-Malta, Reale, 31 October 1833 Rigoletto – Malta, Reale, 7 November 1933 Maria Egiziaca (Respighi) – Malta, Reale, 12 December 1933 La baronessa di Carini (Mulè) – Malta, Reale, 4 January 1934 Cavalleria rusticana – Malta, Reale,, 18 January 1934 Pagliacci – Malta, Reale, 21 February 1934 Faust – L'Aquila, Comunale, 7 November 1934 La traviata – Roma, Reale, 24 January 1934 I puritani – Sassari, Verdi, 12 May 1935 Grazia (Canu) – Sassari, Verdi, 20 May 1935 Madama Butterfly – Bari, Petruzzelli, 26 December 1934 Adriana Lecouvreur – Bari, Petruzzelli, 1 January 1936 Aida – Bari, Petruzzelli, 9 February 1936 Le astuzie d'amore (Casavola) – Bari, Petruzzelli, 24 February 1936 Cecilia – Salerno, Verdi, 29 May 1936 Al lupo! (Mulè) – Fabriano, Gentile, 22 June 1936 Lucia di Lammermoor – Roma, Adriano, 19 July 1936 La risurrezione di Lazzaro (Perosi) – Siena, Chiesa di San Domenico, 14 August 1936 Manon Lescaut – Viterbo, dell'Unione, 1 September 1936 La Sulamita (Zanella) – Napoli, Politeama Giacosa, 28 November 1936 Andrea Chénier – Bari, Petruzzelli, 2 February 1937 Nora (Luporini) – Sanremo, Casino, 16 February 1937 Liolà (Mulè) – Catania, Bellini, 17 March 1937 Mefistofele – Sulmona, Littorio, 23 June 1937 Il trovatore – Pescara, Pomponi, 5 July 1937 La Wally – Fiume, Verdi, 3 November 1937 Antigone (Ghislanzoni) – Alessandria d'Egitto, Municipale, 10 December 1937 La monacella della fontana (Mulè) – Alessandria d'Egitto, Municipale, 10 December 1937 Il piccolo Marat – Novara, Coccia, 20 January 1938 Scampolo (Camussi) – Bari, Petruzzelli, 27 February 1938 Amica – Sanremo, Casino, 16 April 1938 Turandot – Bolzano, Verdi (Civico), 4 May 1938 Parisina – Torino, EIAR, 20 August 1938 La fanciulla del West – Cesena, Bonci, 8 September 1938 Ave Maria (Allegra) – Arezzo, Petrarca, 12 April 1939 Un ballo in maschera – Busseto, Piazza Verdi, 1 August 1939 Guglielmo Ratcliff – Torino, EIAR, 28 September 1939 Guglielmo Tell – Ginevra, aux Bastions, 31 July 1941 La cena delle beffe – Palermo, Massimo, 10 December 1941 Il dottor Faust – Firenze, Comunale, 28 May 1942 La forza del destino – Roma, Reale, 1 October 1944 Otello – Roma, Reale, 29 October 1944 Emiral (Barilli) – Roma, Reale, 25 November 1944 Ernani – Roma, EIAR, 9 December 1944 Carmen – Roma, Reale, 2 February 1945 Lucrezia Borgia – Roma, Quirino, 13 July 1946 Mosè – Roma, Quirino, 3 August 1946 Fedora – Noto, Comunale, 7 May 1951
Otello, RAI Roma 28 June 1947, reissued by TIMAclub on CLAMA CD-37/1-1 with Biasini, Gatti, De Tommaso, Vizzani, Achilli, Gaggi, Werber, Previtali.
Reference: Renato Gigli La biografia, TIMAclub, 1998
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