Marco Arati
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Marco Arati was an Italian opera
tic bass
active during the 1840s through the 1880s. Although he occasionally appeared at other opera house
s in Italy, he was primarily committed to the Teatro di San Carlo
where he sang roles for more than four decades. Even though he was one of the preeminent singers of his day, there is little known about his life.
's Rolla. He sang in numerous world premieres at the Teatro di San Carlo during his career, most notably the roles of Andrea Cornaro in Gaetano Donizetti
's Caterina Cornaro
(1844), Alvaro in Giuseppe Verdi
's Alzira
(1845), Old Orazio in Saverio Mercadante
's Orazi e Curiazi
(1846), Callistene in Donizetti's Poliuto
(1848), Wurm in Verdi's Luisa Miller
(1849), Virginio in Mercadante's Virginia
(1866), and Filippo Augusto in Donizetti's Gabriella di Vergy
(1869). His last known opera appearance was at the Teatro di San Carlo in 1882 as Indra in Jules Massenet
's Le roi de Lahore
. There is no record of him after this 1882 performance and scholars suspect he died soon afterwords.
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
tic bass
Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of male singing voice and possesses the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C...
active during the 1840s through the 1880s. Although he occasionally appeared at other opera house
Opera house
An opera house is a theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building...
s in Italy, he was primarily committed to the Teatro di San Carlo
Teatro di San Carlo
The Real Teatro di San Carlo is an opera house in Naples, Italy. It is the oldest continuously active such venue in Europe.Founded by the Bourbon Charles VII of Naples of the Spanish branch of the dynasty, the theatre was inaugurated on 4 November 1737 — the king's name day — with a performance...
where he sang roles for more than four decades. Even though he was one of the preeminent singers of his day, there is little known about his life.
Biography
The exact place and date of Arati's birth is unknown, although it is likely that he was born somewhere between 1814-1819. He made his professional opera debut at the Teatro di San Carlo in 1841 in a production of Teodulo MabelliniTeodulo Mabellini
Teodulo Mabellini was an Italian composer.-Biography:He was born at Pistoia, Tuscany on 2 April 1817.He was commissioned by Giuseppe Verdi, to compose a portion of Messa per Rossini. Specifically Number VI...
's Rolla. He sang in numerous world premieres at the Teatro di San Carlo during his career, most notably the roles of Andrea Cornaro in Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
's Caterina Cornaro
Caterina Cornaro (opera)
Caterina Cornaro ossia La Regina di Cipro is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Giacomo Sacchèro wrote the Italian libretto after Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges' libretto for Halévy's La reine de Chypre...
(1844), Alvaro in Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
's Alzira
Alzira (opera)
Alzira is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play Alzire, ou les Américains by Voltaire.The first performance was at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, on August 12, 1845...
(1845), Old Orazio in Saverio Mercadante
Saverio Mercadante
Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
's Orazi e Curiazi
Orazi e Curiazi
Orazi e Curiazi is an opera by the Italian composer Saverio Mercadante. It takes the form of a tragedia lirica in three acts. The libretto, by Salvadore Cammarano is based on the Roman legend of the fight between the Horatii and the Curiatii...
(1846), Callistene in Donizetti's Poliuto
Poliuto
Poliuto is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after Pierre Corneille's play Polyeucte . It was composed in 1838 and first performed on 30 November 1848 at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples...
(1848), Wurm in Verdi's Luisa Miller
Luisa Miller
Luisa Miller is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich von Schiller. The first performance was given at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on December 8, 1849...
(1849), Virginio in Mercadante's Virginia
Virginia (Mercadante)
Virginia is an opera, a tragedia lirica, in three acts by composer Saverio Mercadante. The Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano is based on Vittorio Alfieri's tragedy of the same name. Alfieri's play was in turn taken from a story in Livy's Ab Urbe condita...
(1866), and Filippo Augusto in Donizetti's Gabriella di Vergy
Gabriella di Vergy
Gabriella di Vergy is an opera seria in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti written in 1826 and revised in 1838, from a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, which was based on the tragedy Gabrielle de Vergy by Dormont De Belloy...
(1869). His last known opera appearance was at the Teatro di San Carlo in 1882 as Indra in Jules Massenet
Jules Massenet
Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas...
's Le roi de Lahore
Le roi de Lahore
Le roi de Lahore is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet. It was first performed at the Palais Garnier in Paris on 27 April 1877....
. There is no record of him after this 1882 performance and scholars suspect he died soon afterwords.
World premieres
- Alessandro CurmiAlessandro CurmiAlessandro Curmi was a Maltese composer and pianist. Born in Valletta, he studied privately with Pietro Paolo Bugeja and then under Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli and Giacomo Tritto at the San Pietro a Maiella Conservatory in Naples from 1821 to 1827...
's Elodia di Herstall (1842), - Pietro Torregiani's Ulrico di Oxford (1842)
- Giuseppe LilloGiuseppe LilloGiuseppe Lillo was an Italian composer. He is best known for his operas which followed in the same vein of Gioachino Rossini. He also produced works for solo piano, a small amount of sacred music, and some chamber music....
's Lara (1842) - Giovanni PaciniGiovanni PaciniGiovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...
's La fidanzata corsa (Guido Tobianchi, 1842) - Gaetano DonizettiGaetano DonizettiDomenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
's Caterina CornaroCaterina Cornaro (opera)Caterina Cornaro ossia La Regina di Cipro is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Giacomo Sacchèro wrote the Italian libretto after Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges' libretto for Halévy's La reine de Chypre...
(Andrea Cornaro, 1844) - Vincenzo Maria Battista's Margherita d'Aragona (Michele, 1844)
- Salvatore Sarmiento's Costanza d'Aragona (1844)
- Giuseppe VerdiGiuseppe VerdiGiuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
's AlziraAlzira (opera)Alzira is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play Alzire, ou les Américains by Voltaire.The first performance was at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, on August 12, 1845...
(Alvaro, 1845) - Vincenzo Capecelatro's Mortedo (1845)
- Giovanni Pacini's Stella di Napoli (1845)
- Pietro Torregiani's La sirena di Normandia (1846)
- Vincenzo Maria Battista's Emo (1846)
- Saverio MercadanteSaverio MercadanteGiuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
's Orazi e CuriaziOrazi e CuriaziOrazi e Curiazi is an opera by the Italian composer Saverio Mercadante. It takes the form of a tragedia lirica in three acts. The libretto, by Salvadore Cammarano is based on the Roman legend of the fight between the Horatii and the Curiatii...
(Old Orazio, 1846) - Vincenzo Maria Battista's Eleonora Dori (1847)
- Vincenzo Maria Battista's Irene (1847)
- Giovanni Pacini's Merope (Trasimede/Anassimandro, 1847)
- Gaetano Donizetti's PoliutoPoliutoPoliuto is a tragedia lirica, or tragic opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after Pierre Corneille's play Polyeucte . It was composed in 1838 and first performed on 30 November 1848 at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples...
(Callistene, 1848) - Giuseppe Verdi's Luisa MillerLuisa MillerLuisa Miller is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich von Schiller. The first performance was given at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on December 8, 1849...
(Wurm, 1849) - Giuseppe Puzone's Elfrida di Salerno (1849)
- Saverio Mercadante's Medea (Creonte, 1851)
- Giovanni Pacini's Malvina di Scozia (1851)
- Errico PetrellaErrico PetrellaErrico Petrella was an Italian opera composer.Petrella was born at Palermo. A conservative of the Neapolitan school, he was the most successful Italian composer, second only to Verdi, during the 1850s and 1860s. He also earned the latter's scorn for his compositional and dramatic crudities,...
's Elena di Tolosa (1852) - Giuseppe StaffaGiuseppe StaffaGiuseppe Staffa was an Italian composer and conductor. He is best remembered for his seven operas which he composed between 1827 and 1852. He was active as a conductor in Naples at the Teatro del Fondo and Teatro Nuovo. One of his students was Enrico Bevignani.-References:...
's Alceste (Stratone/Talenio, 1852) - Nicola De Giosa's Guido Colmar (1852)
- Vincenzo Maria Battista's Mudarra (1852)
- Saverio Mercadante's Statira (Erma-Sommo, 1853)
- Giovanni Pacini's Romilda di Provenza (1853)
- Errico Petrella's Marco Visconti (Oldrado del Balzo, 1854)
- Antonio Gandolfo's Il sultano (1854)
- Nicola De Giosa's Ettore Fieramosca (1855)
- Giovanni Terranova's L'orfana di Lorena (1855)
- Ferdinando Tommasi's Guido e Ginevra (1855)
- Giovanni Pacini's Margherita Pusterla (1856)
- Saverio Mercadante's Pelagio (Asan, 1857)
- Salvatore PappalardoSalvatore Pappalardo (composer)Salvatore Pappalardo was an Italian composer and conductor.Born in Catania, Pappalardo began his studies in his home city before entering the Palermo Conservatory where he studied under Pietro Raimondi...
's Mirinda (1860) - Errico Petrella's Virginia (Virginio, 1861)
- Vincenzo MoscuzzaVincenzo MoscuzzaVincenzo Moscuzza was an Italian composer. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, he was the son of composer Luigi Moscuzza and his initial musical training was from his father. He later studied at the Naples Conservatory with Saverio Mercadante...
's Don Carlos infante di Spagna (Filippo II, 1862) - Enrico BevignaniEnrico BevignaniEnrico Modesto Bevignani was an Italian conductor, harpsichordist, composer, and impresario. He studied in his native city with Giuseppe Albanese, Salvatore Lavigna, Giuseppe Lillo and Giuseppe Staffa...
's Caterina Blum (1862) - Vincenzo Maria Battista's Giovanna di Castiglia (1863)
- Nicola De Giosa's Il bosco di Dafne (1864)
- Paolo SerraoPaolo SerraoPaolo Serrao was a distinguished and influential Italian teacher of musical theory and composition at Naples....
's La duchessa di Guisa (1865) - Saverio Mercadante's VirginiaVirginia (Mercadante)Virginia is an opera, a tragedia lirica, in three acts by composer Saverio Mercadante. The Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano is based on Vittorio Alfieri's tragedy of the same name. Alfieri's play was in turn taken from a story in Livy's Ab Urbe condita...
(Virginio, 1866) - Giovanni Pacini's Berta di Varnol (1867)
- Paolo Serrao's Il figliuol prodigo (Ruben, 1868)
- Vincenzo Maria Battista's L'Alba d'Oro (1869)
- Gaetano Donizetti's Gabriella di VergyGabriella di VergyGabriella di Vergy is an opera seria in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti written in 1826 and revised in 1838, from a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, which was based on the tragedy Gabrielle de Vergy by Dormont De Belloy...
(Filippo Augusto, 1869) - Errico Petrella's Manfredo (1872)
- Ernesto ViceconteErnesto ViceconteErnesto Viceconte was an Italian composer. Born in Naples, Viceconte was a child prodigy and was admitted to the Naples Conservatory at the age of 8. He composed 5 operas; three of which premiered at the Teatro di San Carlo: Evelina , Luisa Strozzi , and Selvaggia . The latter work was his most...
's Selvaggia (1872)