Tieste Wilmant was an Italian operatic baritone

Baritone

Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...

. He made his professional opera

Opera

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 debut in 1878 in Chiari

Chiari

Chiari is a comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, northern Italy....

. In 1896 he originated the role of Marcello in the original production of Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...

's La bohème

La bohème

La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadro, a tableau or "image", rather than atto . by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger...

at the Teatro Regio Torino

Teatro Regio Torino

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 in 1896. He made his debut at La Scala

La Scala

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 in the 1893-1894 season where he appeared in productions of Alfredo Catalani

Alfredo Catalani

Alfredo Catalani was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley and La Wally...

's Loreley

Loreley (opera)

Loreley is a three-act azione romantica opera by Alfredo Catalani, composed to a libretto by Angelo Zanardini, Giuseppe Depanis, Carlo D'Ormeville and others....

and in Puccini's Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut (Puccini)

Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost....

. He appeared in performances at La Scala several more times over the next decade including portraying the role of Alberich in the Italy's first performance of Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...

's Siegfried

Siegfried (opera)

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and the role of Iago in Verdi's Otello

Otello

Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, and was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on February 5, 1887....

. Wilmant made two records on the Zonophone

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 record label

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in 1904.