Luigi Zamboni was an Italian

Italy

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 opera

Opera

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tic buffo

Opera buffa

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 bass-baritone

Bass-baritone

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He was born in Bologna

Bologna

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, where he began his singing career in 1791 in a production of Cimarosa

Domenico Cimarosa

Domenico Cimarosa was an Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school...

's Il fanatico burlato. Engagements followed in Naples

Naples

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, Parma

Parma

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, Venice

Venice

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 and Rome

Rome

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, where he sang in operas by Valentino Fioravanti

Valentino Fioravanti

Valentino Fioravanti was a celebrated Italian composer of opera buffas.One of the best opera buffa composers between Domenico Cimarosa and Gioacchino Rossini. He was especially popular in Naples, and was the first in Italy to introduce spoken dialogue in the French manner in his works, sometimes...

, Paisiello

Giovanni Paisiello

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 and others. He retired from the stage in 1825. He died in Florence

Florence

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The Barber of Seville

The part of Figaro in The Barber of Seville

The Barber of Seville

The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville , which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music...

was written for Zamboni by Gioachino Rossini, who was also a family friend. Zamboni created the role in Rome on 20 February 1816.

Russia

In 1829 Zamboni managed an Italian opera company in St Petersburg for two seasons, performing Rossini and other works.

Sources

• Forbes, Elizabeth (1992), 'Zamboni, Luigi' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
  New Grove Dictionary of Opera
  The New Grove Dictionary of Opera is an encyclopedia of opera, considered to be one of the best general reference sources on the subject. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5,448 pages in four volumes....
  
  , ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
• Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5