Alessandro Bonci [SEP] voice type
Alessandro Bonci
Alessandro Bonci (February 10, 1870 – August 9, 1940) was an Italian lyric tenor known internationally for his association with the "bel canto" repertoire. He sang at many famous theatres, including New York's Metropolitan Opera, Milan's La Scala and London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Biography.
A native of Cesena, Romagna, Bonci started out as an apprentice shoemaker. He secured a music scholarship to the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, working for five years with Carlo Pedrotti
, and he bequeathed his heart to that city, where it was exhibited inside an urn at the Teatro Real museum.
Voice and recordings.
Commentators often describe Anselmi (and his famous contemporary Alessandro Bonci) as being among the last exponents of the old "bel canto" method of Italian singing, which was largely supplanted in Italy during the early 1900s by a more forceful mode of vocalism associated with Wagner's music dramas and verismo opera.
Anselmi was a good-looking man with an arresting stage presence,