OPERA - BORDONI, Franco (Bologna, 1932 – Casalecchio di Reno, 2020)

OPERA - BORDONI, Franco (Bologna, 1932 – Casalecchio di Reno, 2020)
The son of a barber and a housewife, he enrolled at the G.B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna, which he abandoned after two years and continued his studies as a self-taught, listening to and assimilating vocal technique on records by Beniamino Gigli and Carlo Tagliabue. He made his debut in 1953 at the Teatro Nuovo di Imola in Giacomo Puccini's La bohème in the role of Schaunard. He alternated his appearances as a supporting actor with a long list of competitions, eight of which he won, including: Busseto 1961, Fano 1961, Lonigo 1962, Munich (Germany) 1962, Toulouse (France) 1964, Parma 1965, Barcelona (Spain) 1966. On 23 December 1967 for the first performance, Bordoni was called upon to perform the role of Rigoletto in place of the sick protagonist and began his career as a mainly Verdian interpreter. From 1967 onwards, he sang in the theatres of the following cities in Italy: Turin, Genoa, Parma, Milan, Venice, Verona, Bologna, Macerata, Rome, Naples, Catania, Palermo, Cagliari, in Spain: Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Bilbao, La Coruña, Tenerife, in France: Paris, Marseille, Nice, Bordeaux, Aix en Provence, in England: London, in Germany: Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Frankfurt am Main, in Austria: Vienna, Graz, in Switzerland: Lausanne, Basel, Zurich, Geneva, St. Gallen, Lugano:, in U.S.A.: San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, in Chile: Santiago del Chile, in Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, to name the most important ones. In the aforementioned theatres, he works alongside his contemporaries, including: Del Monaco, Di Stefano, Corelli, Caballé' Carreras, Marton, Ricciarelli, Domingo, Pavarotti, Kraus, Devia, Baltsa, Siepi, Tucker, Christoff, Serra, Aragall, Vickers, Cossotto, Kabaivanska, Zeani, Deutekom, Arroyo, Bergonzi, Giaiotti, Gedda, Giacomini, Lima, Bonisolli, Bumbry, Obratsova, Molnar, Martinucci, Dimitrova, Lavirgen, Neblett, Jones, Scotto, Freni, McCracken, Codrubas, Olivero, Merighi, Zampieri, Casolla, Cruz-Romo, Slatinaru and is conducted by the most famous Maestros: Freccia, Molinari Pradelli, Abbado R.., Gavazzeni, De Fabritiis, Santi, Patanè, Queler, Sinopoli, Masini, Gandolfi, Guadagno, Franci, Mackerras, Neschling, Erede, Gelmetti. He closed his career in Maribor at the Slovene National Theatre in 2000, singing Rodrigo in Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo after 47 years with over 400 performances of Rigoletto performed in the title role. La Gioconda (Barnaba) with Josè Carreras - Gran Teatro di Liceu, Barcelona 1984 In 2012, he was celebrated by the Teatro Comunale di Bologna for his 80th birthday with a photo exhibition set up in the Rotonda Gluck that traced his long baritone career through stage pictures. In addition, a biographical DVD (interview by Prof. Marco Beghelli, professor at the University of Bologna - Department of Visual, Performing and Multimedia Arts) capturing the most salient moments of his artistic career was filmed for the occasion. In 2016, the musician and writer Bruno Baudissone published with the publishing house Il mio libro a collection of interviews dedicated to the world of opera entitled Non ti scordar di me, which also recounts Franco Bordoni's career. Autographed photo of the famous baritone in the role of Rodrigo in the opera Rigoletto. Dated 16/11/1974 Very good condition Photograph; 14.5x10.2 cm
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