Introduction

The singers in this list are sorted into their respective voice types in the tabs at the bottom of this document. Except where
indicated, the singers listed here have at least one extant recording that can be found on YouTube or Spotify. Many have
extensive discographies—some only in the acoustic era, some only in the electric, with a handful straddling both
technologies.

I have compiled this document over the course of 2+ years for four reasons:

toward repertoire and career.

found in more modern singers or singers deliberately not included here.
beautiful because in accord with physiological and acoustic laws.
type, calibre, and repertoire.
that these singers entered the pantheon to which they belong, and it is only by this path that any aspiring singer
today may join them.
Unrecorded First Name Last Name Teacher(s)
or Vera Amerighi Rutili
Giannina Arangi-Lombardi Beniamino Carelli, Adelina Stehle, Tina
Celestina Boninsegna Poli-Randaccio
Guglielmo Mattioli, Virginia
Lina Bruna Rasa Boccabadati
Gaetano Bavagnoli
Eugenia Burzio Luigi Aversa, Guagni Benvenuti, and later
Montserrat Caballé Carolina
NapoleoneFerni
Annovazzi, Eugenia Kemény
Maria Callas and Conchita
Maria Trivella,Badía
Elvira de Hidalgo, Louise
Emma Calvé Caselotti
Mathilde Marchesi, Domenico Mustafà
Maria Caniglia (Pietro) Agostino Roche
Maria Carena Virginia Ferni-Germano
Gina Cigna Emma Calvé, Hariclea Darclée, and Rosina
Giuseppina Cobelli Storchio
Giuseppe Arrigoni, Jacques Stuckgold
Régine Crespin Suzanne Cesbon-Viseur, Georges Jouatte
Mary Curtis-Verna Ettore Verna
Gilda Dalla Rizza
Emmy Destinn Marie Maria von Dreger Loewe-Destinn
Germana Di Giulio Ernestina Consalez/Gonsalez (Lyric
Florence Easton soprano, Gonzalez
Elliott Haslam, Opera
Anna E. Company)—
Schoen-René
Eileen Farrell Michael Farrell (father, baritone) and
Kirsten Flagstad Catherine
Gillis BrattFarrell (mother, leggero
Dusolina Giannini Ferruccio Giannini (father), Marcella
Adriana Guerrini Sembrich
Roberto Giovannini
Margaret Harshaw Anna E. Schoen-René
Solomiya Krushelnytska Valery Wysocki, Fausta Crespi
Lilli Lehmann Maria Theresia Löw
Frida Leider Otto Schwarz, Louis Bachner
Caterina Mancini Contessa Beatrice Calcagni Soldini?
Ester Mazzoleni Amelia Pinto
Zinka Milanov Milka Ternina and her assistant Marija
Claudia Muzio Kostrenčić, Fernando
Annetta Casaloni, Carpi
Elettra in Milan,
Callery-Viviani
Birgit Nilsson Ragnar Blennow, Joseph Hislop and
Lillian Nordica Arne Sunnegårdh
Sangiovanni
Augusta Oltrabella Manilo Bavagnoli
Iva Pacetti Ferruccio Cecchini and Mary Mirabella
Mirella Parutto
Rose Pauly Rosa Papier-Paumgartner
Maria Pedrini Edvige Ghibaudo
Rosa Ponselle
Rosa Raisa Barbara Marchisio, Lazar Samoilof
Elisabeth Rethberg Otto Watrin
Giannina Russ Alberto Leoni
Bianca Scacciati Ernesta Bruschini
Eleanor Steber William Whitney
Antonietta Stella Aldo Zeetti, then Accademia di Santa
Renata Tebaldi Cecilia in Rome Ettore Campogalliani,
Italo Brancucci,
Helen Traubel Carmen Melis, Beverley
Louise Vetta-Karst PeckinJohnson
and later New York
Eva Turner City with Giuseppe Boghetti
Dan Rootham, Albert Richards Broad
Maria Vitale Giannina Arangi-Lombardi
Teacher's Lineage Notes
Debut age 23 as Aida.
Carelli < Saverio After study with Carelli, debuted mezzo age
Mercadante 29 as Lolaage
Debuted in Cavalleria rusticana.
15 as Norina. Sangwith
After study
Boccabadati
Debuted agedebut
17 as age
Elena20inasMefistofele.
Marguerite.
Age 20 was her first Aida, Santuzza,
Ferni studied with Giuditta Debuted age 17 as Santuzza. Maddalena
Pasta (Chenier)
Debut ageage 21.Mimì.
23 as Gioconda age 22.
de Hidalgo < Melchiorre Debut age 15/16 as Santuzza. The best
Vidal
Marchesi < Manuel recorded
Debut ageexamples are pre-1955.
23 as Marguerite. At age 34,
Garcia Jr. /Martucci,
Palumbo, Mustafà < studied for 25
Debut age six as
month in Rome with castrato
Chrysothemis.
Serrao Debuted age 26 as Leonora in Trovatore.
Calvé < Marchesi/Mustafà; Debut at 27 as Freia.
Darclée < Jean-Baptiste Debut age 26 as Gioconda.
Debuted age 22 as Charlotte in Werther.
First
Debut Elsa
ageand
28 Tosca age 23.
as Desdemona.
Debut age 20 as Charlotte in Werther. Age
21 firstage
Debut Marguerites and Minnies
20 as Santuzza. (Fanciulla
Last name also
Destinnová
Started late. Studied vocalises for 4
Schoen-René < Pauline years, repertoire
Debut as Shepherdforboy2.(Tannhäuser)
Debut age 28
ageas
Viardot < Manuel Garcia 20.
CBSFirst Butterfly
Chorus member at 20/21.
age 20. Concert and
recording artist for next 15 years. Stage
Azucena at 13. Main stage debut age 23 as
Aida.
Schoen-René < Pauline Debut age 25 as Azucena. Began study with
Viardot < Manuel Garcia Schoen-René
Debut age 21 age 27. Damrosch
as Leonora heard her
(Favorita).
Immediately travelled to Italy to study with
Debut age 27 as Venus (Tannhäuser)
Debut age 24 as Giselda in I lombardi.
Debut age 23 as Leonora in Trovatore.
Debut age 21 as Leonora in Trovatore.
Debut age 21 as Massenet's Manon.
Debut age 28 as Agathe in Der Freischütz.
Verdi,
Debut Wagner, Strauss,
age 22 as Mozart
Elvira in for the next
Giovanni.
Debut age 22 as Leonora in Trovatore.
Debut age 21 as Aida.

Small roles from age 23. Desdemona at 24.

Debut age 21 as Elena in Mefistofele.
Professional singer by 17. Stage debut age
21 as Leonora
Debut in Leonra
age 20 as Forza del
in destino.
Oberto and
Amelia in Ballo
Debut age 19 asinArsena
maschera.
in Zigeunerbaron.
Repertoire of 100 roles by age 28. Debuted
Debut age 30 as Mimì, Amelia, and Elivra
(Ernani).
Debut age 23 as Marguerite.
Debut age 22 as Senta. Met debut age 26
as Sophie
Debut age(Rosenkavalier).
21 as Leonora in Trovatore.
Debut age 22 as Elena in Mefistofele.
Debut age 24 as concert singer. Stage
debut age Debut
Chorister. 37. Wagnerian
age 24 asdebut age 40.
Shepherd
(Tannhäuser). RepNorma,
Debut age 26 as of Brünnhilde,
Leonora,Leonore
Amelia,
Aida.
Unrecorded First Name Last Name
or Maria Barrientos
Valeria Barsova
Mercedes Capsir
Margherita Carosio
Rosanna Carteri
Maria Chiara
Geraldine Farrar
Mirella Freni
Amelita Galli-Curci
Maria Galvany
Sistina and Maria Kurenko
Giulia] Domenico Mancini
recorded Nellie Melba
early 1900s] Alessandro Moreschi
Antonina Nezhdanova
Lina Pagliughi
Rosetta Pampanini
Adelina Patti
Lily Pons
Bidu Sayão
Marcella Sembrich
Rosina Storchio
Luisa Tetrazzini
Teacher(s) Teacher's Lineage
Francisco Bonet
Umberto Masetti

Ferruccio Cusinati, Nino Ederle

Antonio Cassinelli, Maria Carbone
Emma Thursby, Francesco Graziani (one of the first Verdi
baritones), Lilli Lehmann
Ettore Campogalliani
Self-taught
Lázaro María Puig and Napoleone Verger
Umberto Masetti
Alessandro Moreschi
Mary Ellen Christian, Pietro Cecchi, Mathilde Marchesi
Gaetano Capocci
Umberto Masetti
Gaetano Bavagnoli
Emma Malajoli
Maurice Strakosch < Giuditta Pasta
Alberto de Gorostiaga, Alice Zeppilli
Jean de Reszke, Giuseppe Danise
Viktor Rokitansky, Giovanni Battista Lamperti, Francesco
Lamperti
Eva Tetrazzini, Ettore Contrucci, Matelda Ceccherini
Notes
Debut age 15 as Ines in
L'africana.
Debut age 25 as Gilda.
Debut age 18 as Gilda.
Debut age 16 as Lucia di
Lammermoor.
Debut age 19 as Elsa in
Lohengrin.
Debut age 26 as Desdemona.
Debut age 19 as Marguerite.
Debut age 20 as Micaëla.
Debut age 24 as Gilda.
Debut around age 21 as Lucia di
Lammermoor.

Concert debut age 24. Stage

debut ageCastrato."
"The Last 26 as Gilda.
Began studies at 26. Debuted
age 29.studies at 15. Debuted
Began
age 20age
Debut as Gilda.
24 as Micaëla.
Debut age 16 as Lucia di
Lammermoor.
Debut age 30 asFinal concert
Lakmé. age
Final
concerts age 75.
Debut age 19 in Puritani,
Dinorah,
Debut age Lucia di Micaëla.
16 as Lammermoor,
Debut age 19 as Ines in
L'africana.
Unrecorded First Name Last Name
or Irina Arkhipova
Fedora Barbieri
Gabriella Besanzoni
Karin Branzell
Aurora Buades
Clara Butt
Maria Capuana
Bruna Castagna
Julia Claussen
Oralia Dominguez
Cloe Elmo
Louise Homer
Louise Kirkby-Lunn
Margarete Matzenauer
Irene Minghini-Cattaneo
Elena Nicolai
Elena Nikolaidi
Nadezhda Obukhova
Sigrid Onegin
Armida Parsi-Pettinella
Gianna Pederzini
Miriam Pirazzini
Regina Resnik
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Giulietta Simionato
Ebe Stignani
Shirley Verrett
Giuseppina Zinetti
Teacher(s) Teacher's Lineage
Nadezhda Malyshia, Leonid Savransky
Federico Bugamelli, Luigi Tofolo, Giulia Tess
Alessandro Maggi, Ibilda Brizzi
Tekla Hofer, Anna Schön-René, Louis
Bachner, Enrico Rosati
Luis Irabarne
Dan Rootham, Jacques Bouhy, Etelka
Gerster
Beniamino Carelli Saverio Mercadante
Tina Scognamiglio
Oskar Lejdström

Edvige Ghibaudo, and later with Isora

Rinolfi
Jacques(?Bouhy
Pedrini ?)
Albert Vissetti, Jacques Bouhy
Franz Emmerich
Vincenzo Cicognani, later Ettore Cattaneo
Vincenzo Pintorno, Ettore Pozzoli
Thanos Mellos
Umberto Masetti
Lilli Lehmann, Margarethe Siems, Louis
Bachner
Fernando De Lucia

(Pietro) Agostino Roche

Oreste Poli
Notes
Began study at 23. Debuted
age 29 studying
Began as Lyubasha
age in
18.Rimsky-
Debuted
Began asage 20 as Debut
soprano. Fidalma in
age
21 as Adalgisa.
Debut age 21 asUlrica
Princeat age
Sarvilaka
Debut agein21.
Eugen d'Albert's
Debut age 20.
Debut age 25 as Amneris.
Debut age 29 as Marina
Mniscekstudies
Started in Borisat
Godunov.
18. Debut
age 22-24age
Debuted as 20
Leonora
as the Musico
in Manon
Began Lescaut.
studies at 17.
Graduated age 22. Was
Began studies 17 and trained
for 3 years. Considered her
Debut age 26 as Madlon in
Andrea Chenier,
Debut age 27 as followed
Maddalenaby in
Rigoletto.
Debut age 30 as Pauline in
Tchaikovsky's
Debut age 23 The Queen of
as Carmen.
Debut age 25 as Margherita in
Guglielmo
Debut age Ratclif.
23 as Preziosilla in
Forza del destino.
Debut age 26 as Laura in La
Gioconda.
Debut age 20 as Lady
Macbeth.
Debut age 16 in Beethoven's
9th. Stage
Debut age debut ageparts
18. Small 17 asfor
15 years.
Debut ageBecame
22-23 asa Amneris.
star age
Debut age 26 in Rape of
Lucretia.
Debut age 29 as Flora/Annina
in Traviata.
Unrecorded or First Name Last Name Teacher(s)
Purely Agustarello Afre Edmond Duvernoy and Pierre
Carlo Albani Gailhard
Enrico Delle Sedie
Kurt Baum Eduardo Gabin
Carlo Bergonzi Ettore Campogalliani
Jussi Björling
Alessandro Bonci Carlo Pedrotti (3 years), later with
Dino Borgioli Felice Coen and Enrico Delle Sedie
Eugenio Giachetti
* Italo Campanini
Enrico Caruso Guglielmo Vergine, Vincenzo
Mario Chamlee Lombardi
Giuseppe Agostini, Achille Alberti,
Giovanni Chiaia Riccardo Dellera, Gabrielle Sibella
Self-taught
Franco Corelli Umberto Macnez, Rita Pavoni, self-
Antonio Cortis taught, Carlo Scaravelli, Arturo
Giulio Crimi Matteo Adernò
André D'Arkor Henri Seguin and Malherbe
Fernando De Lucia Vincenzo Lombardi, Beniamino
Bernardo De Muro Carelli
A. Sbriscia and Alfredo Martino
Mario Del Monaco
Dante Del Papa
* Domenico Donzelli
* Gilbert Duprez
Léon Escalaïs Louis-Henri Obin
Nikolai Figner Vassily Samus, I. P. Pryanishnikov
Miguel Fleta and
LuisaCamillo
PierrickEverardi at the Saint
Paul
* Gaetano Fraschini
Nicola Fusati
* Julián Gayarre
Beniamino Gigli
Aristodemo Giorgini Pasquale Russo Galeota, Massimo
Jerry Hadley Perilli
John Davis, Grace Wilson, James
Joseph Hislop Bailey, Thomas Lo Monaco
Gillis Bratt
Hermann Jadlowker Joseph Gansbacher
Giuseppe Krismer Abramo Petillo
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
Hipólito Lázaro Ernesto Colli
Gastone Limarilli Arturo Melocchi
Aroldo Lindi Dean Dossert and Cesare Sturani
Angelo Lo Forese Primo Montanari, Emilio Ghirardin
Thomas Lo Monaco
 Jerome Lo Monaco
Max Lorenz Ernst Grenzebach
Francesco Marconi Ottavio Bartolini, Venceslao
Galliano Masini Persichini
Angelo Bendinelli, Giovanni Laura
* Angelo Masini
Lawrence Melchior Ernst Grenzebach
Francesco Merli Carlo Negrini and Adelaide
* Pietro Mongini Borghi
* Napoleone Moriani
* Ernesto Nicolini
Moishe Oysher
Antonio Paoli
Luciano Pavarotti Ettore Campogalliani
Gino Penno Ettore Campogalliani
Aureliano Pertile Giacomo Orefice, Gaetano
Nino Bavagnoli
Piccaluga
Alfred Piccaver S. Graham Nobbes, Allan Lindsay,
Giacinto Prandelli Ludmilla
Fornarini,Prochazka-Neumann
and in Brescia with
* Sims Reeves Grandini

Josef Rosenblatt
* Giovanni Rubini
Manuel Salazar José Joaquín Vargas Calvo,
Augusto Scampini Castegnaro,
del Fiume Conrado
Tito Schipa Emilio Piccoli
Joseph Schmidt Hermann Weissenborn
Francesco Signorini Enrico Tamberli(c)k
Leo Slezak Adolf Robinson, Jean de Reszke
Fritz Soot Karl Scheidemantel
* Roberto Stagno
Set Svanholm John Forsell
Giuseppe Taccani Lelio Casini
Francesco Tamagno Carlo Pedrotti
* Enrico Tamberli(c)k In Naples with Zirilli and
* Mario Tiberini Borgna,
In Rome then
with in Bologna Lucilla
Domenico with
Franz Völker and in Naples with Emanuele
Giovanni Zenatello
Nicola Zerola
Teacher's Lineage Notes
Debut age 32 as Edgardo in Lucia.
Debut age 29 as Radamès.
At age 22-23, studied voice for 1 year.
Debut
Began age 25with
study as Prince Pao in
Campogalliani at age
16. Debuted age 24 as Rossini's Figaro
Began studies age 17. Debuted age 19 as
Don
DebutOttavio,
age 26followed byin
as Fenton Arnold in William
Falstaf.
Debut age 23 as Arturo in Puritani.
Debut age 19 as Oloferno Vitellozzo in
Lucrezia
Began Borgia.
studies with Vergine at 18; three
years
Debuton exercises
age and repertoire
24 as Edgardo in Lucia.came
Debut age 23-24 as Turiddu.
Began studies at Pesaro Conservatory age
25, under
Began Umberto
vocal studiesMacnez.
at 18. Was expelled
Debut age 25 as Manrico.
Debut age 24 as Gérald in Lakmé.
Carelli < Saverio Mercadante Debut age 25 as Faust.
Debut age 29 as Turiddu.
Debut age 25 as Pinkerton.
Debut age 24.

Debut age 23 as Belezès in Duvernoy's

Emanuele de Roxas < Sardanapale. Paris Opera debut as Arnold
[Alessandro Busti & Girolamo Two years' study with Pierrick. Debut age
22 as Paolo in Francesca da Rimini!

Studied voice only after becoming a

doctor. Debut age 32 as Radamès.
Debut age 24with
years' study as Enzo Grimaldo
Perilli. inas
Re-debut La
Gioconda.
Ernesto in Pasquale.
John Davis < Paul Althouse & Studied at Illinois. Began study with Lo
Giuseppe De Luca. Thomas Lo Monaco in 1978, age 26. Debut NYCO age

Trained as hazzan (cantor). Studied Debut

age
Debut22.age 29 as Fernando in Favorita.
Debut age 26 as Arturo in Puritani.
Debut age 23 as Fernando in Favorita.
Debut age 32 as Canio.
Debut age 28 as Radamès.
Began studies at 18. After the war he
Thomas Lo Monaco < Douglas studied with Montanari and debuted as
Stanley (who, for a brief time
Thomas Lo Monaco < Douglas
Stanley (who, for a brief time Debut age 26 as Walter in Tannhäuser.

Debut age 25 as Faust.

Began singing at age 18 as baritone.
Debut age 27 as Cavaradossi.

Debut age 29 as Alvaro in Spontini's

Fernand Cortez.

Debut age 28 as Arnoldo in William Tell.

Debut age 26 as Rodolfo in Bohème.
Formal debut age 30 as Floreski in
Cherubini's
Debut age 26Lodoiska.
as Lionel in Martha.
Debut age 28 as Turiddu.
Debut age 23 as Fenton in Merry Wives
of Windsor.
Debut age 28 as Rodolfo in Bohème.

Chazzan/cantor

Sang publicly as tenor from age 15.

Studied in Italy
Debut age 25 asfrom 20. Debuted age 24
Cavaradossi.
Debut age 20-21 as Alfredo in Traviata.
Studied singing as boy in synagogue.
Later
Debuttrained
age 21.with Weissenborn. Debut
Debut age 23 as Lohengrin. Retrained
with
Debutdeage
Reszke
30 asatTonio.
age 34. Two years later

Debuted as Silvio, sang baritone for 5+

years, tenor19debut
Debut age as Grieux
as Des Radamèsin Manon
Lescaut.
Finished musical studies at 23. Small
roles.
ConcertFormal
debutdebut ageStage
age 17. 24 asdebut
Riccardo
agein
Emanuele de Roxas < 21 as Tebaldo in Bellini's I Capuleti e i
[Alessandro Busti & Debut age 27 as Florestan.
Debuted age 22 as a baritone. Tenor
debut ageage
Debuted 23 22
as as
Canio.
a baritone. Tenor
debut age 27 as Canio.
Unrecorded or
Purely HistoricalFirst Name Last Name
Giovanni Albinolo
* Gottardo Aldighieri
Pasquale Amato
Mario Ancona
Ernesto Badini
Luigi Baldassarri
Vicente Ballester
Cesare Bardelli
* Paul Barroilhet
Mario Basiola
Ettore Bastianini
Mattia Battistini
Gino Bechi
Giuseppe Bellantoni
Oreste Benedetti
Richard Bonelli
Francesco Maria Bonini
Charles Cambon
Giuseppe Campanari
Ernesto Caronna
* Filippo Coletti
* Filippo Colini
Anselmo Colzani
Ferruccio Corradetti
Alfredo Costa
Antonio Cotogni
Armando Dado
Giuseppe Danise
Giuseppe De Luca
* Giuseppe Del Puente
Hector Dufranne
* Camille Everardi
* Jean-Baptiste Faure
Cesare Formichi
Benvenuto Franci
Giulio Fregosi
Lucien Fugère
Carlo Galef
Dinh Gilly
Eugenio Giraldoni
* Leone Giraldoni
Igor Gorin
Apollo Granforte
* Francesco Graziani
Giangiacomo Guelfi
Giovanni Inghilleri
Oscar Kamionsky
Giuseppe Kaschmann
Jean Lassalle
Pavel Lisitsian
Cornell MacNeil
Antonio Magini-Coletti
Ugo Marturano
Robert Merrill
Josef Metternich
Giovanni Milani
Renzo Minolfi
Enrico Molinari
Luigi Montesanto
Carlo Morelli
Enrico Nani
Adolfo Pacini
Giuseppe Pacini
* Francesco Pandolfini
Taurino Parvis
Antonio Pini-Corsi
Afro Poli
Antenore Reali
Gaetano Rebonato
Marcos Redondo
Maurice Renaud
Giacomo Rimini
* Giorgio Ronconi
Luigi Rossi-Morelli
Titta Ruffo
Mario Sammarco
Charles Santley
Celestino Sarobe
Emil Schipper
Heinrich Schlusnus
Joseph Schwarz
 Antonio Scotti
Paolo
Mariano Stabile
Riccardo Stracciari
* Antonio Superchi
Carlo Tagliabue
* Antonio Tamburini
Umberto Urbano
* Felice Varesi
Domenico Viglione-Borghese
Leonard Warren
Mario Zanasi
Teacher(s) Teacher's Lineage

Beniamino Carelli Saverio Mercadante

Matteini, Giuseppe Cima

Barcelona with Casas y

Mayoral, Paris
Barsanti, Pizzi,with
CarloJean de
Tagliabue,
Daniele Serra
Davide Banderali, Pannizza
Antonio Cotogni
Fathima and Anselmo
Ammanati, Luciano Bettarini
Venceslao Persichini, Antonio
Cotogni
Raul Frazzi, di Giorgio
Antonio Cotogni
Carlo Angeloni

Beniamino Carelli Saverio Mercadante

Luigi Colonnese Emanuele Roxas < [Alessandro

Alessandro Busti Busti & Girolamo
< Girolamo Crescentini]
Crescentini < <
Lorenzo Gibelli < Giovanni
Corrado Zambelli
Giuseppe Faini
Antonio Cotogni
Angelo Scardovelli, (possibly
Salesi and Gentili) at the
Luigi Colonnese, Abramo Emanuele Roxas < [Alessandro
Petillo
Venceslao Persichini, Antonio Busti & Girolamo Crescentini] <
Cotogni
Francesco D'Auria

Manuel Garcia II
Antoine Ponchard
Pio Di Pietro, Vincenzo
Lombardi
Antonio Cotogni
Finardi, Teresa Gigolo, Ettore
Negrini
Di Como and Sbriscia, Antonio
Cotogni
Antonio Cotogni
Carolina Ferni Son of Leone Giraldoni and
Carolina Ferni
Luigi Ronzi

Nicholas Guerrera and Guido

Capocci
Titta Rufo

Camille Everardi, S. Gabelja

and
Ivan O. Palecheka
Zajc, Alberto at St.
Giovannini
Novelli

Friedrich Schorr, Samuel

Margolis
Venceslao Persichini

Samuel Margolis

Nino Santoro

Antonio Cotogni

Cortese

Bruno Pizzi

Riccardo Daviesi
In Italy with Betinelli and
Franceschi.
Joseph Cornelis and Henri
Warnots
Amelia Conti Foroni, Lazar
Samoilof

Venceslao Persichini, Senatore

Sparapani, Lelio Casini,
Antonio Cantelli, Franz Ettore
Emmerich
Gaetano Nava, Manuel Garcia
Ignacio Tabuyo, Mattia
Battistini
Louis Bachner
Adolf Robinson < Francesco Lamperti
Esther Trifari-Paganini,
Vincenzo Lombardi
Antonio Cotogni
Umberto Masetti

Leopoldo Gennai, Annibale

Guidotti
Antonio Cotogni

Antonio Cotogni
Sidney Dietsch
Notes
Debut age 29 as Enrico in Lucia.

Debut age 22 as Germont.

Amateur debut age 20. Formal debut
age 29age
Debut as Scindia in Le roi
20 as Matteo in de
Frà
Diavolo.
Debut as Germont.
Debut age 26 as Amonasro, Alfio,
and Tonio.
Debut age Italian debut age 27 as
27 as Amonasro.
Debut age 20.
Debut age 26 as Germont.
Started singing as a bass age 15.
First
Debut concerts
age 22 age 18/19. in
as Alfonso Served
La
favorita.
Debut age 23 as Germont.
Debut age 25 as Renato in Ball.
Debut age 22 as Conte di Luna in
Trovatore.
Debut age (Pisa
26 asnewspapers
Valentin. state
Debut age 31 as Don Carlo in Forza
del
Wasdestino.
a chorister and comprimario
until
Debut age 38,
age 25when he began
as Renato to be
in Ballo.

Debut age 23 as Prosdocimo in Turco

in italia
Began studies right after WWII.
Debut as
Debut ageEnrico
29 asin
the Herald inIl
Donizetti's
campanello.
Began studies age 20. Debut age 26
as Renato
There in Ballo.
is only ONE recording of
Cotogni—the
Cantor Mulattieri duet with
Debut age 24 as Alfio in Cavalleria
rusticana.
Debut age 21 as Valentin.

Debut age 26 as Valentin.

Debut age 22 as Pygmalion in Victor

Massé's
Debut ageGalathée.
24 as Lescaut in Manon.
Debut age 27 as Giannetto in
Lodoletta.
Concert debut age 21. Stage debut
age 22
Sang as Silvio. from age 22.
professionally
Operetta debut ageEnrico
26. in Lucia.
Debut age 21 as
Debut age 25 as Silvio.
Debut age 20 as Escamillo.
Created Il duca d'Alba, Simon
Boccanegra,
Debut aroundand
ageRenato.
25 as Ping in
Turandot.
Debut age 27 as Germont.

Debut age 26 as Rigoletto.

Debut age 25 as Valentin.
Debut age 23 as Tonio. Was referred
to as the
Sang Russian
publicly fromBattistini.
age 19. Operatic
debut age
Debut age 26
21 as
as Alfonso in Favorita.
St. Bris in
Huguenots.
Studied singing from 21 to 24.
Debut age 28 as John Sorel in The
Consul.
Debut age 25 as Valentin.
Debut age 26.
Debut age 27 as Amonasro.

possibly a pseudonym for recording

Debuted as bass. Baritone debut age

34 as Alfonso
Debut age 22 in
asFavorita.
Escamillo.
Debut age 24.
Debut age 27 as Alfio.
Debut age 19 as Don Sallustio in Ruy
Blas.
Debut age 25 as Francesco in I due
Foscari.
Debut age 21 as Kyoto in Iris.
Debut age 20 as Dandini.
Debut age 25 as Germont.
Debut age 24 as Rigoletto.

Began vocal study at 20. Debut age

22 as Germont.
Debut age 22. Moved to Italy to
Debut age 22 as Escamillo.

Debut age 26 as Wotan.

Debut age 21 as the Herald in
Lohengrin.
Debut age 20 as Valentin.

Debut age 27 as Alfono in Favorita.

Debut age 22 as Telramund.
Debut age 27 as the Herald in
Lohengin.
Debut age 20 as Amonasro.
Debut age 23 as Amonasro.

Debut age 21 as Marcello.

Operatic debut age 25 as Marcello.

Debut age 23 as Amonasro.

Debut age 24 as Renato in Ballo.

Debut around age 20 as Amonasro.

Formal debut age 28 as Paolo in
Simon Boccanegra.(Technically
Unrecorded or First Name Last Name Teacher(s)
Purely Rafaele Arié Riccardo Stracciari, Apollo Granforte, Carlo
Vittorio Arimondi Tagliabue
Giuseppe Cima
Augusto Beuf Antonio Cotogni
Michael Bohnen Fritz Steinbach and Richard Dornburg
Feodor Chaliapin
Plinio Clabassi Dmitri Usatov
Nazzareno De Angelis Giuseppe Faberi
Jean-François Delmas Louis-Henri Obin
Adamo Didur Valery Wysocki and later with Franz Emmerich
Nicolai Ghiaurov in Milan
Bonaldo Giaiotti Alfredo Starno
Jerome Hines
Marcel Journet Louis-Henri Obin
Alexander Kipnis Ernst Grenzebach
Virgilio Lazzari Antonio Cotogni
José Mardones
* Romano Nannetti
Giulio Neri
Luigi Nicoletti Korman Romano Nannetti
Mario Petri
Ezio Pinza
Pol Plançon Gilbert Duprez, Giovanni Sbriglia
Léon Rothier
Friedrich Schorr Adolf Robinson
Cesare Siepi
Paolo Wulman Ottavio Bartolini
Corrado Zambelli
Teacher's Lineage Notes

Began singing as a child in

the Cappella Sistina and

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