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Fernando De Lucia

Fernando De Lucia (11 October 1860 or 1 September 1861 – 21 February 1925) was an Italian opera tenor and singing teacher who enjoyed an international career.

De Lucia was admired in his lifetime as a striking exponent of verismo parts — particularly Canio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci — and of certain roles written by Verdi and Puccini. Since then, however, he has acquired a great posthumous reputation among record-collectors for something different. They hail him as the exemplar of a type of graceful, ornamental tenor singing which originated prior to verismo and that went out of fashion for a long time, only to reemerge in recent years. Especially valued are the recordings that De Lucia made of Almaviva's arias and duets from Rossini's bel canto comic opera Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville).

Birth and Death Data: Born October 11, 1860 (Naples), Died February 21, 1925 (Naples)

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1902 - 1909

Roles Represented in DAHR: tenor vocal

= Recordings are available for online listening.
= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings (Results 26-26 of 26 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Gramophone 13337b 10-in. 5/21/1909 Carmela mia Fernando De Lucia Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra vocalist, tenor vocal  
(Results 26-26 of 26 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "De Lucia, Fernando," accessed April 25, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/103715.

De Lucia, Fernando. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/103715.

"De Lucia, Fernando." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 25 April 2024.

DAHR Persistent Identifier

URI: https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/103715

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