Mattio Battistini spent the second part of the 1907 – 1908 season and the entire 1908 – 1909 opera season at the Lviv Opera. The French opera composer, Jules Massenet (1842 – 1919), personally transposed the lead role of Werther in his opera Werther from a tenor to a baritone so Battistini could perform it in St. At the time and throughout the composer’s life, no other opera singer was permitted to appear in both parts in a single performance. Italian opera music composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857 – 1919) allowed ‘divo’ (as the composer referred to the singer) to sing both the Prologue and the role of Silvio in the opera Pagliacci. It was gifted to Battistini by his friend, the matador (bullfighter), Luis Mazzantini (1856 – 1926).īattistini was personally acquainted with most of the great opera composers of his time. Included among them is a costume for the role of Escamillo in the opera Carmen, “with a scarlet cape on which there are genuine traces of blood from a real bull” (p.68). Jacques Chuilon in his book Mattia Battistini: King of Baritones and Baritone of Kings (published in English tranlation in 2009) records that Battistini left a legacy of over 100 costumes made for him for his various roles as an opera singer. However, since the Italian opera singer traveled with large trunks filled with costumes that he needed for his various opera roles, it was also a necessity. According to various sources, when on tour, Battistini would travel in a private coach, which could be attached to a scheduled rail service. Long distance land trips in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were either by horse-and-buggy or by train. Mattia Battistini devoted much of his to time travel. graced the salons of the imperial families of Romanov Russia and Edwardian England.traveled to perform in South and North America.performed in all the capitals of Europe.The Italian opera singer Battistini had a career that spanned almost 50 years. 22 – made his opera debut at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.19 – began university studies (law or medicine – the experts can’t agree).14 – studied at the Bandinelli Jesuit School in Rome.His mother was a descendant of Roman nobility and his father a medical practitioner, director of the Hospitale dello Spirito Santo in Rome and colonel in the Pope’s Civilian Guard unit (later amalgamated into the Vatican Guard). Mattia Battistini was born in Rome on February 27, 1856. Perhaps, the most famous of the Italian opera singers, in fact, a legend, who has honoured Lviv (Leopolis) with his voice, was the legendary baritone – Mattia Battistini (1856 – 1928) A Legend Among Male Italian Opera Singers – Mattia Battistini
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