Lorenzo Sabatucci
Other than the performances listed below, Sabatucci was a member of the Zürich Stadttheater from 1960 to 1966, and toured the USA with the "Italian Opera Company" in fall and winter 1960. He doesn't seem to have had a very long career: by the late 1960s, he was already a booker, not only for classical but also for pop musicians. Some performances Prato, 25 December 1955, Teatro Metastasio, Madama Butterfly, with Rita Bezzi-Breda, Luisa Malagrida, Luciana Vanni,
Brenno Ristori, Alfredo Fineschi, Mario Frosini, Pasqualino Rossi
Trieste, 13 December 1957, Teatro Verdi, Lucia di Lammermoor, with Leyla Gencer, Giacinto Prandelli, Liliana Hussu, Nino Carta, Raimondo Botteghelli
Spoleto, 8 June 1960, Teatro Nuovo, La bohème (act 1), with Mietta Sighele, Robert Kerns, Walter Alberti, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Claudio Giombi, Thomas Schippers
Amsterdam, from 23 April 1961, Theater Carré, Rigoletto (sharing with Nicola Tagger), with Lino Puglisi, Maria Luisa Cioni/Clelia Drovandi/Franca Ottaviani, Gino Belloni, Bianca Bortoluzzi, Ernesto Vezzosi, Silvana Brandolini, Bruno Grella, Alberto Alfieri, Arturo Gaidano, Anna Bucolari
s'-Gravenhage, from 17 May 1961, Gebouw voor den Kunsten, Rigoletto (sharing with Nicola Tagger), with Lino Puglisi, Maria Luisa Cioni/Clelia Drovandi/Franca Ottaviani, Gino Belloni, Bianca Bortoluzzi, Ernesto Vezzosi, Silvana Brandolini, Bruno Grella, Alberto Alfieri, Arturo Gaidano, Maria Gasparotto/Anna Bucolari
Barcelona, 29 November 1962, Teatre del Liceu, La bohème, with Mietta Sighele, Marco Stecchi, Juan Foiani, Nino Verchi
Zürich, 21 June 1963, Stadttheater, Rigoletto, with Lucille Kailer, Regina Sarfaty, Ettore Bastianini, Lorenzo Gaetani, Ralph Telasko, Wolfram Mertz, Reinhold Güther, Werner Ernst, Martha Lewis, Ruth Rohner, Adolf Diehn, Kate Hurney, Nello Santi
Zürich, 8 September 1963, Stadttheater, Rigoletto, with Lucille Kailer, Cora Canne Meijer, John Modenos, Heinz Borst, Siegfried Tappolet, Wolfram Mertz, Reinhold Güther, Werner Ernst, Madeleine Baer, Ruth Rohner, Adolf Diehn, Hildegard Eilmann, Nello Santi
Tokyo, 23 October 1963, NHK, Il barbiere di Siviglia, with Aldo Protti, Giulietta Simionato, Arturo La Porta, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Giorgio Onesti, Anna Di Stasio, Nino Verchi
Zürich, 11 January 1964, Stadttheater, Rigoletto, with Lucille Kailer, Maria Minetto, Ettore Bastianini, Heinz Borst, Siegfried Tappolet, Wolfram Mertz, Reinhold Güther, Werner Ernst, Madeleine Baer, Ruth Rohner, Adolf Diehn, Hildegard Eilmann, Nello Santi
Zürich, 7 May 1964, Stadttheater, Rigoletto with Victoria Canale, Dorothy Krebill, John Modenos, Heinz Borst, Siegfried Tappolet, Wolfram Mertz, Reinhold Güther, Werner Ernst, Madeleine Baer, Ruth Rohner, Adolf Diehn, Hildegard Eilmann, Armin Jordan
In the performances of Rigoletto in Zürich, Bastianini was a big disappointment. He had almost no voice at the beginning. He recovered a little after the intermission. His voice was certainly not what one hears on records.Reference 1: Stadtarchiv Zürich, reference 2, reference 3, reference 4: The Billboard, 21 March 1960
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