Mattia Battistini [SEP] voice type
Mattia Battistini
Mattia Battistini (27 February 1856 – 7 November 1928) was an Italian operatic baritone. He was called "King of Baritones".
Early life.
Battistini was born in Rome and brought up largely at Collebaccaro di Contigliano, a village near Rieti, where his parents had an estate.
His grandfather, Giovanni, and uncle, Raffaele, were personal physicians to the Pope and his father, Cavaliere Luigi Battistini, was a professor of anatomy at the University of Rome. Battistini attended the Collegio
Mattia Battistini (born 1856), Mario Ancona (born 1860), Pol Plançon (born 1851), and Antonio Magini-Coletti and Francesco Navarini (both born 1855).
Quotations.
- "There are no registers in the human singing voice when it is accurately produced. According to natural laws of voice, it is made up of one register that constitutes its entire range"
- "Bel-canto is not a school of sensuously pretty voice-production. It has come to be a generally