César Vezzani [SEP] voice type
César Vezzani
César Vezzani (8 August 1888 – 11 November 1951) was a French/Corsican operatic tenor who became a leading exponent of French "grand opera" through several decades. (Some sources give his date of birth as 1886.)
Career.
César Vezzani was born in Bastia in Corsica; his father died shortly before his birth. Soon after 1900 his family moved to Toulon on the French mainland, but little is known about his early musical training. In 1908 he went to Paris to study
- Carlo Andrea, count Pozzo di Borgo (Imperial Russian diplomat)
- Carlo Bonaparte (father of Napoléon Bonaparte)
- Caroline Bonaparte (sister of Napoléon Bonaparte)
- César Campinchi (lawyer and French politician)
- César Vezzani (opera singer)
- Charles Pasqua (French politician, former Minister of Internal Affairs)
- Danielle Casanova (World War II Resistance hero)
- Elisa Bonaparte (sister of Napoléon Bonaparte)
- François-Xavier Ortoli (French politician, former President of the