Dino Dondi
Dino Dondi was an Italian operatic baritone.
Life
Like many Bolognese, Dondi had a passion for opera and after studying singing as an autodidact, he met a master who recognised his vocal talent.At the beginning of the 1950s, after singing in theatres in Emilia, including Bologna, Dondi moved to Milan and in 1954 made his debut at the Teatro Nuovo in Verdis' Rigoletto.
Shortly afterwards, he was called by La Scala, where he sang, among other operas, in Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck under the direction of Luchino Visconti, with Maria Callas and the direction of Nino Sanzogno, and in Verdi's Macbeth, conducted by Thomas Schippers.
He married Irène Companeez, contralto.
Dondi died in Basse-Terre, prefecture of the French department of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, at the age of 81.
Recordings
- 1955: Don Sebastiano, Carlo Maria Giulini conducting, role: Abaialdo
- 1957: Iphigénie en Tauride, Nino Sanzogno conducting, role: Oreste
- 1958: Assassinio nella cattedrale, Gianandrea Gavazzeni conducting, role: Terzo Sacerdote
- 1959: Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti, RAI TV Milano, Fernando Previtali conducting, role: Lord Enrico Ashton
- 1960: La Wally, Arturo Basile conducting, role: Vincenzo Gellner dell'Hochstoff
- 1960: Nabucco, conducting, role: Nabucodonosor
- 1961: Beatrice di Tenda by Vincenzo Bellini, Antonino Votto conducting, role: Filippo Maria Visconti
- 1966: I puritani by Vincenzo Bellini, Arturo Basile conducting, role: Sir Riccardo Forth
- 1969: Andrea Chénier, Anton Guadagno conducting, role: Carlo Gérard