Adolfo Bassi (

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, 1775 –

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...

, 1855) was an Italian composer and operatic

tenor A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ...

. Brother of the

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Nicola Bassi and the

contralto A contralto () is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type. The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare; similar to the mezzo-soprano, and almost identical to that of a countertenor, typically b ...

Carolina Bassi-Manna, he was also an impresario of the Teatro Nuovo in

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Operas

*''Il Riccardo o Il finto cieco e sordo'' (1809, Teatro Nuovo, Trieste) *''L'ingiusta critica alle donne'' (1809, Teatro Nuovo, Trieste) *''La covacenere'' (1817, Teatro Nuovo, Trieste) *''I tre gobbi'' (1820, Teatro Grande, Trieste)

References

Italian tenors Italian opera composers Male opera composers Italian male classical composers Italian classical composers 1775 births 1855 deaths Italian operatic tenors Musicians from Naples 19th-century Italian male opera singers {{Italy-opera-singer-stub