Piero Cappuccilli in the title role of Simon Boccanegra

The Italian baritone Piero Cappuccilli (1929 - 12 July 2005) was a famous opera singer, best know for his Verdi roles, particularly Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra. He was renowned for his extraordinary breath control and smooth legato. Opera fans considered Cappuccilli one of the finest Italian baritones of the second half of the 20th century. Image File history File links Piero Cappuccilli (1929 - 12 July 2005), Italian opera singer. ... Image File history File links Piero Cappuccilli (1929 - 12 July 2005), Italian opera singer. ... This is an article on the voice type. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 172 days remaining. ... a bust ... The foyer of Charles Garniers Opéra, Paris, opened 1875 Opera is an art form consisting of a dramatic stage performance set to music. ... 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 ... Macbeth is an 1847 opera by Giuseppe Verdi with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on Shakespeares play of the same name. ... Simon Boccanegra is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. ...

Born in Trieste, Cappuccilli originally intended to become an architect, but after encouragement from relatives decided to pursue a career in opera. He made his operatic debut in 1957 at the Teatro Nuovo in Milan, singing Tonio in I Pagliacci. In 1960, he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, singing Germont in Verdi's La Traviata. Location within Italy Trieste (Latin Tergeste, Italian Trieste, Slovenian and Croatian Trst, German and Friulian Triest) is a city in northeastern Italy, capital of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region and Trieste province, population 211,184 (2001). ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect, also known as a building designer, is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction, whose role is to guide decisions affecting those building aspects that are of aesthetic, cultural or social concern. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Location within Italy Piazza della Scala Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese dialect: Milán) is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed Italian region. ... Pagliacci (The Clowns) is an opera in two acts and a prologue by Ruggiero Leoncavallo. ... A full house at the old Metropolitan Opera House, seen from the rear of the stage, at the Metropolitan Opera House for a concert by pianist Josef Hofmann, November 28, 1937. ... La traviata, an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, takes as its basis the novel La dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas, fils. ...

Cappuccilli spent most of his career singing in Europe, with only infrequent travels to North America. He never achieved the level of international fame that baritones like Robert Merrill or Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau had, but he carved out his own niche in the Italian repertoire. Robert Merrill (4 June 1919 - 23 October 2004; some sources give his birth year as 1917) was an American opera baritone. ... Missing image Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau The German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (born May 28, 1925) is regarded by many as the finest Lieder singer of his generation. ...

Cappuccilli was highly respected as an actor on the operatic stage, and for his fine vocal technique and singing elegance -- not to mention his beautiful singing voice, which he used to his best advantage.

Among his recordings, the 1960 performance of Enrico in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, with Maria Callas in the title role is considered one of his finest. But it was his 1970s recording of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra and Macbeth under the baton of the renowned Italian conductor Claudio Abbado which made operatic history, since they helped to reinstate those operas in the regular canon of staged Verdi operas. Lucia di Lammermoor is an opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. ... Maria Callas in the title role of Donizettis opera Anna Bolena, La Scala, Milan (1957) Maria Callas (Greek name: Μαρία Καλογεροπούλου; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was a Greek-American soprano and perhaps the best-known opera singer of the post-World War II period. ... 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 ... Simon Boccanegra is an opera by Giuseppe Verdi. ... Scene from Macbeth, depicting the witches conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, based loosely on historical events, such as the King Macbeth of Scotland, and including characteristic features of a morality play. ... Claudio Abbado (born June 26, 1933) is a noted Italian conductor. ...

Cappuccilli died in 2005 at age 75 in Trieste. His health had been fragile since an automobile accident in 1992.

External link

• Piero Cappuccilli (Fan page with pictures, sounds, recordings and more)