Andrea Bellini was an Italian opera

Opera

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tic bass

Bass (voice type)

A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...

 who had an active career performing in Italy's major opera house

Opera house

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s from the 1840s through the 1870s. He specialized in the buffo repertoire and was most often heard in comprimario

Comprimario

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 roles.

Career

From 1843-1853, 1856–1858, and 1866–1872, Bellini was committed to La Fenice

La Fenice

Teatro La Fenice is an opera house in Venice, Italy. It is one of the most famous theatres in Europe, the site of many famous operatic premieres. Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes" despite losing the use of two theatres...

 in Venice. At that house he performed in several world premieres, including Samuele Levi

Samuele Levi

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's Giuditta (1844, Mindo), Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...

's Ernani

Ernani

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(1844, Jago), Giovanni Galzerani

Giovanni Galzerani

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's Giovanna Maillotte (1848), Galzerani's La vivandiera (1848), Antonio Buzzolla

Antonio Buzzolla

Antonio Buzzolla was an Italian composer and conductor. A native of Adria, he studied in Venice, and later worked with Gaetano Donizetti and Saverio Mercadante. He composed five operas, but was better known in his lifetime for ariettas and canzonettas in the Venetian dialect...

's Elisabetta di Valois (1850, Count di Lerme), Francesco Malipiero

Francesco Malipiero

Francesco Malipiero was an Italian composer. He was the father of conductor and pianist Luigi Malipiero and the grandfather of composer and musicologist Gian Francesco Malipiero. Trained in Venice, he composed a large number of operas; many of which premiered at La Fenice...

's Fernando Cortez (1851, Don Alfonso), Verdi's Rigoletto

Rigoletto

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(1851, Count Ceprano), Giovanni Felis' Hermosa (1851), Carlo Ercole Bosoni

Carlo Ercole Bosoni

Carlo Ercole Bosoni was an Italian composer and conductor. He was active as a conductor at La Fenice in Venice during the 1850s and 1870s. Some of his operas premiered there as well.-References:...

's La prigioniera (1853, Inigo), Antonio Monticini

Antonio Monticini

Antonio Monticini was an Italian choreographer, ballet dancer, and composer who was active in major theatres throughout Italy during the first half of the 19th century.-References:...

's Aladino (1853, Uberto), Verdi's La traviata

La traviata

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(1853, Dottore Grenvil), Verdi's Simon Boccanegra

Simon Boccanegra

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(1857, Pietro), and Serafino Amedeo De Ferrari

Serafino Amedeo De Ferrari

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's Il matrimonio per concorso (1858, Anselmo). He sang at the Teatro Regio di Parma

Teatro Regio di Parma

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 in 1854-1855. He also worked as a guest artist at the Teatro di San Carlo

Teatro di San Carlo

The Real Teatro di San Carlo is an opera house in Naples, Italy. It is the oldest continuously active such venue in Europe.Founded by the Bourbon Charles VII of Naples of the Spanish branch of the dynasty, the theatre was inaugurated on 4 November 1737 — the king's name day — with a performance...

in Naples.