Leone Giraldoni [SEP] date of death
Leone Giraldoni
Leone Giraldoni (born 4 July 1824, Paris – died 19 September 1897, Moscow) was a celebrated Italian operatic baritone. He created the title roles of Gaetano Donizetti's "Il duca d'Alba" (1882) and Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra" (1857) as well as the role of Renato in Verdi's "Un ballo in maschera" (1859).
Giraldoni studied in Florence with Luigi Ronzi and made his début as the High Priest in Pacini's "Saffo" (Lodi, 1847
, disliked her intended role of Hélène and Donizetti put the work aside when it was half completed".
Donizetti then abandoned the score in favour of continuing to work simultaneously on both "L'ange de Nisida" and "L'elisir d'amore", and thus it was nearly 34 years after the composer's death that it was completed by his former pupil Matteo Salvi and received its first performance in an Italian translation and under its Italian title "Il duca d'Alba" at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on 22 March 1882 with Leone Giraldoni