15 Facts About Eliodoro Bianchi

Eliodoro Bianchi was an Italian operatic tenor and later a prominent singing teacher.

Eliodoro Bianchi retired from the stage in 1835 and spent his later years in Palazzolo sull'Oglio, where he died at the age of 75.

Eliodoro Bianchi was born in Cividate al Piano, a town in the Province of Bergamo, to Claudia nee Balestra and Massimo Eliodoro Bianchi.

The family moved to Palazzolo sull'Oglio near Brescia in 1775 when Massimo Eliodoro Bianchi was appointed the organist for the town's newly completed cathedral.

Eliodoro Bianchi received his early musical training from his father and sang as a boy soprano in local churches.

Cipriano Eliodoro Bianchi served as the organist for the Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Calcinate.

Odoardo Eliodoro Bianchi was a tenor active in Italian theatres from 1784 to 1791 and later at the Imperial Court in Saint Petersburg.

Eliodoro Bianchi was twenty years old when he began his stage career as a tenor, appearing at the Teatro Onigo in Treviso during the autumn season of 1793 as Attalo in Tarchi's Ariarate.

In 1807, Eliodoro Bianchi married Carolina Crespi, an eighteen-year-old soprano whom he met when they were both singing with the Theatre-Italien in Paris.

Eliodoro Bianchi began his career primarily singing in opera buffas, but from 1812 he came to prominence in the opera seria genre as well.

However, critics for the French journal Le Moniteur and the British London Magazine complained about the baritonal quality of Eliodoro Bianchi's voice, finding his singing "ponderous" and lacking in brilliance.

Eliodoro Bianchi's students included Elisa Orlandi, Cesare Badiali and Enrico Crivelli.

Eliodoro Bianchi spent his later years in Palazzolo sull'Oglio, his boyhood home.

Eliodoro Bianchi died there in 1848 at the age of 75 and was buried in the town's cemetery.

Eliodoro Bianchi wrote a collection of 12 pieces for singing students which was dedicated to Rossini and published posthumously in 1863.