Andrea Nozzari was an Italian

Italy

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 tenor

Tenor

The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...

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Nozzari was born in Vertova

Vertova

Vertova is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 70 km northeast of Milan and about 20 km northeast of Bergamo...

 and studied in Bergamo

Bergamo

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 and Rome

Rome

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. He is notable for the principal roles written for him by Gioachino Rossini and mostly premiere

Premiere

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d in Domenico Barbaia

Domenico Barbaia

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's theatres in Naples

Naples

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. These were:

• Leicester in Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
  Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
  Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, is a dramma per musica or opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, from the play The Page of Leicester by Carlo Federici...
  
  (1815)
• Otello in Otello
  Otello (Rossini)
  Otello is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsi, based on Shakespeare's play Othello....
  
   (1816)
• Rinaldo in Armida
  Armida (Rossini)
  Armida is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, based on scenes from Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso.-Performance history:...
  
   (1817)
• Osiride in Mosè in Egitto
  Mosè in Egitto
  Mosè in Egitto is a three-act opera written by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, which was based on a play by Francesco Ringhieri, L'Osiride, of 1760....
  
  (1818)
• Agorante in Ricciardo e Zoraide
  Ricciardo e Zoraide
  Ricciardo e Zoraide is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Berio de Salsa...
  
  (1818)
• Pirro in Ermione
  Ermione
  Ermione is a tragic opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on the play Andromaque by Jean Racine.- Performance history :...
  
  (1819)
• Rodrigo in La donna del lago
  La donna del lago
  La donna del lago is an opera by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on The Lady of the Lake, a poem by Sir Walter Scott.This opera was the first to be based on Scott's romantic works...
  
  (1819)
• Paolo Erisso in Maometto II
  Maometto II
  Maometto II is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, to an Italian libretto by Cesare della Valle, set in the 1470s during the time of the war between the Turks and Venetians. Della Valle based his libretto on his earlier play Anna Erizo...
  
  (1820)
• Antenore in Zelmira
  Zelmira
  Zelmira is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. Based on the French play, Zelmire by de Belloy, it was the last of the composer's Neapolitan operas...
  
  (1822)

He also premièred the title roles in Giovanni Pacini

Giovanni Pacini

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's Alessandro nelle Indie

Alessandro nelle Indie

Alessandro nelle Indie is an opera seria in two acts by Giovanni Pacini, with libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on Alessandro nell'Indie by Pietro Metastasio...

(1824) and Donizetti

Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...

's Alfredo il grande

Alfredo il Grande

Alfredo il grande is a melodramma serio or serious opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Andrea Leone Tottola wrote the Italian libretto, which may have been derived from Johann Simon Mayr's 1818 opera of the same name...

, and roles in operas by Michele Carafa

Michele Carafa

Michele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858...

, Manuel García

Manuel Garcia

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, Johann Simon Mayr, Saverio Mercadante

Saverio Mercadante

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, Nicola Antonio Manfroce

Nicola Antonio Manfroce

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 and Stefano Pavesi

Stefano Pavesi

Stefano Pavesi was an Italian composer.Born in Casaletto Vaprio, he is best known for his many operas.. He died at Crema, Lombardy in 1850.-References:...

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Nozzari's voice had a baritonal quality, and his intense acting was much valued by composers and the public. Stendhal

Stendhal

Marie-Henri Beyle , better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme...

 thought him one of the finest singers in Europe. Among his pupils were Antonio Poggi

Antonio Poggi

Antonio Poggi was an Italian operatic tenor who had an active international career from 1827-1848. He is best remembered for creating roles in the world premieres of operas by Gaetano Donizetti and Giuseppe Verdi...

 and Giovanni Battista Rubini

Giovanni Battista Rubini

Giovanni Battista Rubini was an Italian tenor, as famous in his time as Enrico Caruso in a later day. His ringing and expressive coloratura dexterity in the highest register of his voice, the tenorino, inspired the writing of operatic roles which today are almost impossible to cast...

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He died in Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

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