R.I.P. 〓 Italian baritone singer Claudio Desderi

2018/07/02

Italian baritone singer Claudio Desderi died in Florence on June 30. He was 75 years old. Father is composer Ettore Desderi (1892 – 1974). In 1969 he debuted as an opera at the Edinburgh International Festival’s Rossini “Il signor Bruschino” Gaudenzio. He has a wide repertoire from Monteverdi to Nono and he has a tasteful performance and singing in the opera buffa works of Mozart and Rossini. He also appeared in music festivals such as Salzburg, Proms, Glyndebourne. After that, he served as Artistic Director (1991 – 1998) at the Verdi Theater in Pisa, and Artistic Director (1999 – 2001) at Turin’s “Teatro Reggio”. He was also known as an excellent music teacher and was teaching at Rome’s Santa Cecilia Conservatory and Verbier Music Festival.

He debuted in Teatro alla Scala in 1973. Since then, many performances have been performed with Italian Maestro such as Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Muti. Famous picture of ‘Cenelentra’ in the scala in 1981, conducted by Abbado. Also with Muti, there is “Don Paspuale” of the 2006 Ravenna Music Festival, and in the performance of Scala the image of the performance of “Don Giovanni” of 1987, “Così fan tutte” of 1989 is there. “The Marriage of Figaro” has a picture of the 1987 Glyndebourne Music Festival of Bernard Haitink conducting. His songs are also used in movies, including “Liberal Arts” in 2012 and “Last Weekend” in 2014.

Photo：Conservatorio di Musica “Antonio Buzzolla”

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  3. PARIS 〓 Klaus Mäkelä & Orchestre de Paris will release first album

  4. STOCKHOLM 〓 Alan Gilbert will become music director of Royal Swedish Opera

  5. STOCKHOLM 〓 Nina Stemme has won the 2018 Birgit Nilsson Prize

  6. CHICAGO 〓 Muti stands on the member side with the Labor agreement

  7. BRUGES 〓 Anima Eterna dismisses its founder Jos van Immerseel

  8. VIENNA 〓 The Vienna Philharmonic’s annual Christmas concert has been cancelled

  9. BERLIN 〓 Three opera houses announced the performance income in 2018

  10. CLEVELAND 〓 When Franz Welser-Möst canceled his performance of all of Beethoven’s piano concertos, Igor Levit also withdrew

  11. Ludwigsburg Castle Festival 〓 The festival is closed, the closer is Pinchas Zukerman

  12. SAN DIEGO 〓 Edo de Waart will be appointed Principal Guest Conductor of San Diego Symphony

  13. VIENNA 〓 Young Israeli Yamen Saadi Selected as Concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra

  14. INNSBRUCK 〓 Ainars Rubikis becomes Principal Conductor of the Tiroler Symphony Orchestra

  15. PARIS 〓 The Opéra national de Paris has announced its performance lineup for the 2022/2023

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