Dino Dondi (10 July 1925 – 3 March 2007) was an Italian operatic baritone.

Life

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Like many Bolognese, Dondi had a passion for opera and after studying singing as an autodidact, he met a master who recognised his vocal talent.

At the beginning of the 1950s, after singing in theatres in Emilia, including Bologna, Dondi moved to Milan and in 1954 made his debut at the Teatro Nuovo in Verdis' Rigoletto.

Shortly afterwards, he was called by La Scala, where he sang, among other operas, in Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck under the direction of Luchino Visconti, with Maria Callas and the direction of Nino Sanzogno (1957), and in Verdi's Macbeth, conducted by Thomas Schippers (1958).[1]

He married Irène Companeez, contralto.

Dondi died in the French department of Basse-Terre at the age of 81.[2]

Recordings

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References

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  1. ^ "Dal sito luchinovisconti.net". Archived from the original on 2015-08-03. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  2. ^ Dondi Dino in the Großes Sängerlexikon p. 1205
  3. ^ Catalogo da Operaclass.com
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