Giuseppe de Luca, an Italian baritone, was born in Rome in 1876 and died in New York in 1950. His debut was at Piacenza in 1897, singing Valentin in Gounod's Faust. Baritone (French: baryton; German: Bariton; Italian: baritono) is most commonly the type of male voice that lies between bass and tenor. ... Nickname: The Eternal City Location within Province of Rome in the Region of Latium Coordinates: Region Latium Porvince Province of Rome Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1,285 km²  (496. ... See also: 1875 in music, other events of 1876, 1877 in music and the list of years in music. Events August 16 - Ricard Wagners Siegfried debuts in Bayreuth Published popular music Ill Take You Home Again, Kathleen by Thomas Payne Westendorf Grandfathers Clock by Henry Clay Work... Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Piacenza (Placentia in Latin and old-fashioned English, Piasëinsa in the local dialect of Emiliano-Romagnolo) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. ... See also: 1896 in music, other events of 1897, 1898 in music and the list of years in music. Events The Cakewalk matures into Ragtime music John Philip Sousas band makes phonograph recordings of Cakewalks and early Ragtime early publications by Scott Joplin Published popular music Asleep In The... Categories: Stub | 1818 births | 1893 deaths | Opera composers | Romantic composers | French musicians ... Faust, Charles Gounods operatic retelling of the Faust legend, debuted at the Théatre-Lyrique on 19 March 1859. ...

He sang at La Scala from 1902-1910, and made his Covent Garden debut in 1907. He moved to America where he became the leading baritone at the New York Metropolitan Opera for twenty years, from 1915-1935, also returning to the house from 1939-1940. After his retirement he taught voice at the Juillard School. La Scala by night This article is about the opera house. ... See also: 1901 in music, other events of 1902, 1903 in music and the list of years in music. Events April 30 - Claude Debussys opera Pelléas et Mélisande is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris June 9 - the first complete performance of Gustav Mahlers... See also: 1909 in music, other events of 1910, 1911 in music and the list of years in music. // Events March 19 - Béla Bartóks String Quartet No. ... Covent Garden is a district in central London and within the easterly bounds of the City of Westminster. ... See also: 1906 in music, other events of 1907, 1908 in music and the list of years in music. // Events February 21 - Frederick Deliuss opera A Village Romeo and Juliet is premiered in Berlin General Porfirio Díaz legendarily orders a mariachi band to wear upper-class clothing (a... The Metropolitan Opera is located at Lincoln Center in New York, New York. ... See also: 1914 in music, other events of 1915, 1916 in music and the list of years in music. // Events Tom Browns band from New Orleans goes to Chicago, Illinois and start advertising themselves as a Jass Band Published popular music Alabama Jubilee w. ... See also: 1934 in music, other events of 1935, 1936 in music and the list of years in music. // Events April 8 - Béla Bartóks String Quartet No. ... See also: 1938 in music, other events of 1939, 1940 in music and the list of years in music. Events Publication of Music Here and Now, book by Ernst Krenek March 23 - Béla Bartóks Violin Concerto No. ... See also: 1939 in music, other events of 1940, 1941 in music and the list of years in music. // Events January - Frank Sinatra joins the Tommy Dorsey orchestra July 20 - Billboard magazine publishes its first Music Popularity Chart May 27 - Quartetto Egie make their debut performance November 23 - Dmitri Shostakovich... The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory in New York City, informally but definitively identified as simply Juilliard, and most famous for its musically-trained alumni. ...

De Luca is notable for creating two Puccini roles: Sharpless in Madama Butterfly (La Scala, 1904) and the title role in Gianni Schicchi (Metropolitan, 1918). He also created the Marquess in Massenet's Grisélidis, Michonnet in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur, Prince Alexis in Giordano’s Siberia, and Sancho Panza in Massenet’s Don Quichotte opposite Feodor Chaliapin. Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924) is regarded as one of the great operatic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... See also: 1903 in music, other events of 1904, 1905 in music and the list of years in music. // Events January 13 - Béla Bartóks symphonic poem Kossuth is premiered in Budapest, becoming his first major work to be performed February 17 - Puccinis Madame Butterfly debuts in... Gianni Schicchi is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on a story that is referred to in Dantes The Divine Comedy. ... See also: 1917 in music, other events of 1918, 1919 in music and the list of years in music. // Events March 3 - Béla Bartóks String Quartet No. ... Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (May 12, 1842 - August 13, 1912) was a French composer. ... Francesco Cilea, (Palmi, near Reggio Calabria, July 26, 1866 - Varazze, near Savona, November 20, 1950) was an Italian opera composer, whose early success was not sustained, as taste in music changed. ... Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera by Francesco Cilea. ... Umberto Giordano (August 28, 1867 - November 12, 1948) was a composer, mainly of opera. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (May 12, 1842 - August 13, 1912) was a French composer. ... Don Quichotte is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Cain. ... The Russian opera singer Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin () (February 13 (February 1, Old Style), 1873–April 12, 1938) was the most famous bass in the first half of the 20th century. ...

Toscanini is said to have called De Luca, "absolutely the best baritone I ever heard"[1]. He was praised in a wide range of roles, from buffo to bel canto to Verdi. However, after some early forays into Wagner in his days at La Scala, he sang only in Italian and French. His career is well-documented in recordings, many with such other great singers of the Met's golden age as Enrico Caruso and Rosa Ponselle. Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 - January 16, 1957) was considered by many of his contemporaries — critics, fellow musicians, and the public alike — as the greatest conductor of his era. ... Opera buffa (comic opera), also known as Commedia per musica (musical comedy), or Dramma giocoso per musica (musical dramatic comedy), is a form of opera. ... The term Bel Canto may refer to: Belcanto, a vocal technique; or Bel Canto, a novel by Ann Patchett. ... VERDI is an acronym for the Italian unification movement, named after the composer Giuseppe Verdi (ardent supporter of the movement) VERDI stands for Vittorio Emmanuelle, Re D Italia (Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy) Categories: Historical stubs ... Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or music dramas as he later came to call them). ... Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873–August 2, 1921) was one of the most famous tenors in the history of opera. ... Rosa Ponselle (born Meriden, Connecticut 1897 - died near Baltimore, Maryland 1981), was an American soprano. ...

References

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, ed. Michael Kennedy, 3rd. edition, 1980