Giovanni David 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...

 particularly known for his roles in Rossini opera

Opera

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David (also known as Davide) was the son of the tenor Giacomo David

Giacomo David

Giacomo David , was a leading Italian tenor of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.-Biography:...

, with whom he studied. He made his opera

Opera

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tic début in Siena

Siena

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 in 1808 in Adelaide de Guesclino by Johann Simon Mayr. He is notable for the principal roles written for him by Gioachino Rossini, mostly for Domenico Barbaia

Domenico Barbaia

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's theatres in Naples

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• Narciso in Il turco in Italia
  Il turco in Italia
  Il turco in Italia is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani...
  
   (1814)
• Rodrigo 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)
• Ricciardo 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)
• Oreste 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)
• Uberto (James IV of Scotland
  James IV of Scotland
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  ) 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)
• Ilo 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 created the roles of Fernando in the revised version of Bellini

Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...

's Bianca e Fernando

Bianca e Fernando

Bianca e Fernando is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini.There are two versions of this opera: the first, entitled Bianca e Gernando has a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni, after Bianca e Fernando alla tomba di Carlo IV, duca di Agrigento by Carlo...

 (1828) and Leicester in 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 Il castello di Kenilworth

Il castello di Kenilworth

Il castello di Kenilworth is a melodramma serio or tragic opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Andrea Leone Tottola wrote the Italian libretto after Victor Hugo's play Amy Robsart and Eugene Scribe's play Leicester, in its turn after Scott's novel Kenilworth...

 (1829).

David was noted for his vocal range of almost 3 octaves in performance (up to b′′ ) and for his ability to sing extremely florid music, although compared with his contemporary, Andrea Nozzari

Andrea Nozzari

Andrea Nozzari was an Italian tenor.Nozzari was born in Vertova and studied in Bergamo and Rome. He is notable for the principal roles written for him by Gioachino Rossini and mostly premiered in Domenico Barbaia's theatres in Naples...

, his acting ability was limited.

He retired from the stage in 1839, and subsequently managed an opera company in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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