Luigi Bolis
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Luigi Bolis was an Italian
tenor.
After his triumphant debut in 1864, he became an important opera singer in major theaters in Italy and in Europe in the 1870s. His name is engraved at the Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires
.
He was the first to cover the role of Sveno in I Goti by Stefano Gobatti
(1873) Corrado of Wallenrod in I Lituani
by Amilcare Ponchielli
(1874), The Merchant of Venice
by Ciro Pinsuti
(1873), and Gustavo Wasa by Filippo Marchetti
(1875).
Luigi Bolis began as a baritone
but singing as a tenor soon became standard. His repertoire included, among other things, many works of Giuseppe Verdi
. He was comfortable singing a variety of different roles, but his ideal parts were dramatic. He married the soprano Maria Zappettini, with whom he had his son Dante, who became a baritone who would also later marry a soprano.
Bolis's career was short and intense, he retired at just 39 in 1879 in the midst of success to the banks of the Cherio River
at his splendid villa in Gorlago
as a farmer. For some years he was mayor of the town. He died there on 1 September 1905, the day after his biggest rival, Francesco Tamagno
.
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
tenor.
After his triumphant debut in 1864, he became an important opera singer in major theaters in Italy and in Europe in the 1870s. His name is engraved at the Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
.
He was the first to cover the role of Sveno in I Goti by Stefano Gobatti
Stefano Gobatti
Stefano Gobatti was an Italian opera composer.Bergantino was born in 1852 in the Province of Rovigo in a poor and humble peasant family. He passionately studied music and immediately had results, and was taught under Giuseppe Busi and Lauro Rossi...
(1873) Corrado of Wallenrod in I Lituani
I Lituani
I Lituani is an opera consisting of a prologue and three acts by Amilcare Ponchielli to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on the historical poem Konrad Wallenrod written by Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz...
by Amilcare Ponchielli
Amilcare Ponchielli
Amilcare Ponchielli was an Italian composer, largely of operas.-Biography:Born in Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli, near Cremona, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old.Two years...
(1874), The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic...
by Ciro Pinsuti
Ciro Pinsuti
Ciro Pinsuti was an Anglo-Italian composer.He was born in Sinalunga , Italy, and educated in music, for a career as a pianist, partly in London and partly at Bologna, where he was a pupil of Rossini. From 1848 he made his home in England, where he became a teacher of singing, and in 1856 he was...
(1873), and Gustavo Wasa by Filippo Marchetti
Filippo Marchetti
Filippo Marchetti was an Italian opera composer. After studying in Naples, his first opera was "successfully premiered" in Turin in 1856...
(1875).
Luigi Bolis began as a baritone
Baritone
Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...
but singing as a tenor soon became standard. His repertoire included, among other things, many works of 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...
. He was comfortable singing a variety of different roles, but his ideal parts were dramatic. He married the soprano Maria Zappettini, with whom he had his son Dante, who became a baritone who would also later marry a soprano.
Bolis's career was short and intense, he retired at just 39 in 1879 in the midst of success to the banks of the Cherio River
Cherio River
The Cherio River is a river of the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. The river runs for 32 kilometres and has a basin area of 161 km ². Its source is at 1,276 metres above sea level at Monte Torrezzo near Lake Endine and flows into Oglio at Palosco...
at his splendid villa in Gorlago
Gorlago
Gorlago is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 60 km northeast of Milan and about 12 km southeast of Bergamo...
as a farmer. For some years he was mayor of the town. He died there on 1 September 1905, the day after his biggest rival, Francesco Tamagno
Francesco Tamagno
Francesco Tamagno was an operatic tenor from Italy who sang with enormous success throughout Europe and America. On 5 February 1887, he cemented his place in musical history by creating the role of Otello in Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece of the same name...
.