This opera singer was married to Antonietta Fricci in 1871. An opera that he performed in has more acts than La rondine.
Il trovatore (] ; Italian for "The Troubadour") is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play "El trovador" (1836) by Antonio Garca Gutirrez. 
La rondine ("The Swallow") is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and . 
 By 1853 he was engaged as the leading tenor at the Teatro del Corso where he sang in the first performances in Bologna of "Il trovatore" (as Manrico), "Rigoletto" (as the Duke of Mantua), and "Elena da Feltre" (as Ubaldo). 
 She was married to the Italian tenor Pietro Neri-Baraldi from 1863 until his death in 1902. 
