Antonio Lotti

26 March 1954 São Paulo – 15 February 2006 São Paulo

Antonio Lotti sings Andrea Chénier:

Antonio Lotti sings La bohème:

He was the son of the Italian-born tenor Roque Lotti. He studied singing with Leila Farah. After winning several South American voice competitions, he made his debut in Tosca in São Paulo in 1982. His career developed in South America for the first few years.

Roque Lotti

In 1987, he went to Europe – first to Portugal, where he had success in Carmen. In 1994, he became a member of the opera house in Bonn, where he sang Cavalleria rusticana, Tosca, Les contes d'Hoffmann, and Il Guarany.

He made guest appearances in Holland, Oslo, Copenhagen, Bologna (Francesca da Rimini, Luisa Miller), Catania (Don Carlo), Porto, Piacenza (I lombardi), Modena (Fedora, with Mirella Freni), St. Gallen (La Gioconda), Rio de Janeiro (Il tabarro, 1995), Lucca, Washington, Ludwigsburg Festival (Ernani), Canada, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, England, Czech Republic, Norway, Belgium, Japan, ...

He died from a heat attack in his home in São Paulo when he was preparing to go to sing Aida in Egypt.

Reference: Kutsch & Riemens
Reference 2: Wikipedia entry on Antonio Lotti (no longer available)

São Paulo

Tosca, Theatro Municipal, on 23/24/25/26/27/28/29/30 October 1982 (sharing with Maurizio Frusoni, who sang the premiere, and Benito Maresca), with Mabel Valeris/Isabel Gentile/Norma Cresto, Gabriel Foresta/Rio Novello
La vida breve, Theatro Municipal, on 24/25/26/27/28/29/30 November – 1 December 1983 (sharing with Claudimir Aére, who sang the premiere), with Leil Tayer/Marta Baschi, Tullio Colacioppo
Madama Butterfly, Theatro Municipal, on 22/25/26/28/29/30/31 August 1984 (sharing with Benito Maresca, who sang the premiere, and Aldo Loss), with Adriana Morelli/Aura Gomez/Norma Cresto, Andrea Ramus/Luis Orefice, Gloria Queiroz/Vania Soares, José Gnecco/João de Braz/Assadur Kuiltzian, Wilson Carrara/Paoli Adonis, Tullio Colacioppo/Luis Fernando Maleiro
Carmen, Sala São Paulo (concert performances), on 16/17/18/19 October 1986 (sharing with José Marson), with Neyde Thomas/Céline Imbert, Efigenia Cortes/Leila Tayer, Andrea Ramus/Luis Orefice, Tullio Colacioppo/Luis Fernando Maleiro
Andrea Chénier, Sala São Paulo, on 24/25/26/27 April 1987 (sharing with Benito Maresca, who sang the premiere) with Céline Imbert/Berenice Pace, Andreea Ramus/Luis Orefice, Tullio Colacioppo
Rigoletto, Sala São Paulo, on 9/10/11/12/13 December 1987, with Fernando Teixeira/Andrea Ramus, Niza de Castro Tank/Rita Marques/Teresa Godoy, Benedito Silva, Regina Elena Mesquita, Tullio Colacioppo
Il Guarany, Memorial América Latina, on 24 June 1996, with Rosana Ramosa, Alessandro Pagliaga, Pietro Naviglio, Ludo Farago
Il Guarany, Teatro Alfa, May 2000 (sharing with Marcello Vannucci), with Rosanna Lamosa/Lucia Mazzaria, Douglas Hahn, Marcos Ribeiro, Rubens Medina, Mauricio Luz, Carlos Eduardo Marcos, Roberto Gagliotti, Fernadoo Gazoni, Isaac Karabtchevsky

Enschede, Twentse Schouwburg

Tosca, from 18 January 1992, with Awilda Verdejo, Anthony Raffeell, Jan Stulen/Gabriele Bellini
Stiffelio, from 20 November 1992, with Larisa Shevchenko, Elia Padova, Leonid Zimnenko, Alexandru Badea, Gabriele Santini

Vienna, Staatsoper

Stiffelio from 20 June 1997, with Mara Zampieri, Renato Bruson, Ruben Broitman, Peter Köves, Fabio Luisi (total 7 until 1 May 1998, one of them only from scene 2 since Luis Lima couldn't go on)

I wish to thank Helmut Krautschneider for the recordings.

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