1. Salvatore Baccaloni was an Italian operatic bass and buffo artist.
11 Facts About Salvatore Baccaloni
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Salvatore Baccaloni made his professional debut as Bartolo in The Barber of Seville, at Rome's Teatro Adriano, in 1922.
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Salvatore Baccaloni sang for the first time at La Scala, Milan, in 1926, in Ildebrando Pizzetti's Debora e Jaele.
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Salvatore Baccaloni thus went on to make an indelible impression as Leporello in Don Giovanni, Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore, the title character in Don Pasquale, Varlaam in Boris Godunov, the title character in Falstaff and the name part in Gianni Schicchi.
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Salvatore Baccaloni created several operatic roles, too, including that of L'uomo di legge in Umberto Giordano's Il re and parts in Riccardo Zandonai's La farsa amorosa and Vigna by Guido Guerrini.
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Salvatore Baccaloni was to remain at the Met until 1962.
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Salvatore Baccaloni often sang in Philadelphia with a succession of opera companies from 1951 through to 1966.
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Salvatore Baccaloni formed his own opera company which toured the United States in the 1940s, Salvatore Baccaloni Co.
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Salvatore Baccaloni died in New York City on 31 December 1969, aged 69.
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Salvatore Baccaloni's voice is preserved on a number of recordings, many of which have been reissued on compact disc.
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Salvatore Baccaloni appeared in several movies during the 1950s and '60s.