Fernando De Lucia

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Fernando De Lucia Fernando De Lucia Born. Naples, 11 October 1860 or 1 September 1861, Died: Naples, 21 February 1925 Italian tenor opera singer and teacher who was famous in his lifetime as a performer and interpreter, and acquired a great posthumous reputation among record-collectors as a leading exponent of a particular style of singing. Early career De Lucia studied at the Naples Music Conservatory with Vincenzo Lombardi and Beniamino Carelli. He made his debut at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, as Gounod's Faust. Over the next two or three years he sang in Spain, South America and in the smaller Italian opera houses, in Linda di Chamounix, Dinorah, L'elisir d'amore, Fra Diavolo and La sonnambula. While in Madrid he was procured by Augustus Harris and Herman Klein for his first London appearances in the Drury Lane season of 1887,but although Klein liked his Alfredo, he went comparatively unnoticed owing to the London debut of Jean de Reszke. His Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia (a role later closely associated with him) was described as 'truly detestable' by The Times. Mascagni, Rome and Florence In 1891 he took part in the world premiere of L'amico Fritz (Fritz Kobus) (31 October 1891, with Emma Calvé, Synnemberg and Lherie), by Pietro Mascagni, at the Costanzi Theatre, Rome. For a singer later upheld (by some) as the model of bel canto style it was originally quite otherwise, as the creator of Mascagni's original verismo roles that de Lucia was famous, and he

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Prima Voce: Fernando De Lucia

Il tempo della sua Arte

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Il mito dell'opera: Fernando de Lucia (Recordings 1902-1920)

Fernando De Lucia Sings

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Great Voices Of The Opera Vol. 2

Fernando De Lucia

Volume One

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The Harold Wayne Collection, Vol. 33

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Singer Portrait - Fernando de Lucia, Vol.1

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A Controversial Tenor (1902-1908)

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Prima Voce: The Era Of Adelina Patti

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Great Voices Of The Century-16 Tenors. The Greatest Arias -Vol.2

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