Angelo Angioletti

The Catalan tenor Jaume Bachs i Rosés, who adopted later the name of Angelo Angioletti, was born in Barcelona on 22 January 1862 and died there on 14 May 1909.

In 1890, he made his debut as a baritone under his real name at the Teatro Miguel de Cervantes in Málaga, singing with the company of José Tolosa. Prominent members of that company included Emma Nevada, Mariano de Padilla, and Dante Del Papa. In 1891, Angioletti sang at the Teatro Calderón (Valladolid), Real (Madrid) and Liceu (Barcelona).

Then he restudied in Paris, and came back as a tenor and as Angelo Angioletti in 1894, appearing as Don José and Wilhelm Meister at the Politeama in Genova. In 1896, he alternated the role of Lohengrin with Viñas at the San Carlo in Naples. The same year, he also sang there in Un ballo in maschera with Magini-Coletti and Buliciova; in van Westerhout's Doña Flor with baritone Carlo Buti and Buliciova; and in Walküre.

In 1897, he sang in Genova and Trieste; in 1898, in Alexandria and at the Costanzi in Rome (in Les huguenots with Degli Abbati, Padovani, Galli, and Borelli-Angelini). He came back to the Costanzi to sing Otello in 1908 with De Luca, Melis and Mugnone.

In 1900, he sang an entire season in Odessa, and in 1905 at the Tivoli Theater in San Francisco. In 1907, he appeared in Bucharest and Porto.

Angioletti sang in the premieres of Raimondo Lulio by Ricardo Villa at the Teatro Lírico in Madrid (June 1902), of Giovanni di Napoli by Joan Manén (Teatre del Liceu, January 1903), Acté (again by Manén and again at the Liceu, December 1903) and Emporium by Enric Morena (Liceu, January 1906).

In 1905, he had to replace Leo Slezak as Tannhäuser at La Scala in Slezak's only fiasco I am aware of. Angioletti specialized in Wagnerian and late Verdi roles.

He was also a composer, publishing songs and one opera (Aurèlia, 1907) as Jaume Bachs.

Fonotipia, Milano, 16 October 1906
xxPh2143 Otello (Verdi): Già nella notte densa, pt. 1 (w. Petri) XX74021
xxPh2144 Otello (Verdi): Già nella notte densa, pt. 2 (w. Petri) XX74022

Fonotipia, Milano, 17 October 1906
xPh2147 Otello (Verdi): Ora e per sempre			 unpublished
xPh2148 Otello (Verdi): Niun mi tema				 unpublished

Fonotipia, Milano, 18 October 1906
xPh2151 Otello (Verdi): Dio, mi potevi scagliar			 unpublished
xPh2152 L'Africaine (Meyerbeer): O paradiso			 unpublished

Fonotipia, Milano, 19 October 1906
xPh2156 Otello (Verdi): Sì pel ciel (w. Corradetti)		 X39855
xPh2157 Carmen (Bizet): Il fior					 X39851

Fonotipia, Milano, 25 October 1906
xPh2180 Norma (Bellini): Meco all'altar				 X39896 (published?)
xPh2181 Norma (Bellini): Me protegge				 X39897
xPh2182 Un ballo in maschera (Verdi): Di' tu se fedele		 X39852

Fonotipia, Milano, 16 September 1908
xPh3416 Otello (Verdi): Niun mi tema				 unpublished
xPh3417 Otello (Verdi): Ora e per sempre			 unpublished
xPh3418 Otello (Verdi): Dio, mi potevi scagliar			 unpublished

I would like to thank Vladimir Efimenko for the recording.

I would like to thank Roberto Marcocci for informations on Angioletti's career.

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Source for the discography: Gesellschaft für historische Tonträger, Wien