Giuseppe Anselmi

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Giuseppe Anselmi (1876-1929) was an Italian operatic tenor. He became famous throughout Europe during the first decade of the 20th century for his performances of lyric roles. He never sang in the United States. Anselmi came from the Catania area on the east coast of Sicily. He studied violin and piano at the Naples Conservatory as a teenager, and then joined an operetta troupe with which he toured Italy and the Middle East. The music publisher Giulio Ricordi allegedly heard him and advised him to undergo vocal instruction with Luigi Mancinelli, one of Italy's leading conductors. According to some sources, Anselmi's first appearance on stage in an operatic role happened as early as 1896, when he sang Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana) in Greece. His Italian operatic debut took place in Genoa in 1900, and his career took off quickly from there. He appeared initially at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, in late December of that year and, in 1901, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Engagements at La Scala, Milan, and the Monte-Carlo Opera ensued in 1904 and 1908, respectively. He was much admired at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and also sang in Brussels, Berlin and Vienna prior to World War I. His greatest triumphs, however, occurred in the cities of St Petersburg (often opposite Lina Cavalieri), Warsaw and, in particular, Madrid, where he even eclipsed the famous tenor Enrico Caruso in popularity. Although his style of singing was not liked at first by the London c

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Il mito dell'oprera: Giuseppe Anselmi, Vol. 2

The Acoustic Fonotipia Recordings

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The Harold Wayne Collection, Vol. 20 (1907-1910)

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Il mito dell'opera: Giuseppe Anselmi

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Great Voices Of The Opera Vol. 3

Operatic Recital

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Anthology Of Russian Romance: Old Russian Romances, Vol. 3

Giuseppe Anselmi Collection

Guiseppe Anselmi Volume 3

Great Voices Of The Century

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Grandes Voces Del Teatro Read De Madrid

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Great voices of the opera III; CD 1

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