Luis Lima (born 12 September 1948 in
Córdoba, Argentina
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) is an
Argentine
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operatic
tenor, who studied in
Buenos Aires under Carlos Guichandut and in
Sicily under
Gina Cigna
Gina Cigna (6 March 1900 – 26 June 2001) was a French-Italian dramatic soprano.
Biography
Gina Cigna was born in Angers, department of Maine-et-Loire, to parents of Italian origin. She trained as a pianist at the Paris Conservatory studying w ...
.
He made his opera debut in 1974, in
Lisbon
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, in ''
Cavalleria rusticana'', and since then sang in seventy-seven performances at the
Metropolitan Opera (from 1977 to 2001) in nine different roles, starting with Alfredo Germont in ''
La traviata
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''. He has also sung with the
New York City Opera (1978–79, debuting in ''
Madama Butterfly
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It is based on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Luther ...
''), at the
Teatro alla Scala
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(first appearing in ''
Lucia di Lammermoor'', 1977) and the
Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden
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(from 1984).
In 1979, Lima recorded Massenet's ''
Le roi de Lahore
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'' for Decca, opposite Dame
Joan Sutherland
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She possessed ...
. In 1988, he filmed Mozart's ''
Così fan tutte
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'', directed by
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and conducted by
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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, with
Teresa Stratas as Despina and
Ferruccio Furlanetto
Ferruccio Furlanetto (born 16 May 1949 in Sacile, Italy) is an Italian bass. His professional debut was in 1974 in Lonigo, he debuted at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1979, in a production of Verdi's ''Macbeth'', conducted by Claudio Abbado. H ...
as Guglielmo. He also appears on a CD of ''Gemma di Vergi'' on CBS (now Sony) with
Montserrat Caballé,
Paul Plishka
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Christianity
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, and
Louis Quilico
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, conducted by
Eve Queler, and the zarzuela ''Bohemios'' with Maria Bayo on Valois.
There are also DVD releases from Covent Garden of ''Don Carlo'' with
Ileana Cotrubas,
Giorgio Zancanaro
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He studied in his native Verona with Maria Palanda, and was revealed at the Verdi Competition in Busseto in 1969 ...
, and
Robert Lloyd, led by
Bernard Haitink, and ''Carmen'' with
Maria Ewing,
Leontina Vaduva
Leontina Vaduva (Romanian: Leontina Văduva; born in Roșiile, on December 1, 1960) is an acclaimed Romanian soprano. She studied at the Bucharest Conservatory and with Ileana Cotrubaș, and debuted in the title role of ''Manon'' at Toulouse, in ...
, and
Gino Quilico
Gino Quilico OC (born April 29, 1955) is a Canadian operatic baritone.
Quilico was born in Flushing, New York City in 1955, the son of baritone Louis Quilico and pianist Lina Pizzolongo. He studied at the University of Toronto Opera School fro ...
, conducted by
Zubin Mehta.
References
* ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera'', by John Warrack & Ewan West, Oxford University Press, 1996.
1948 births
Living people
Musicians from Córdoba, Argentina
20th-century Argentine male opera singers
Argentine operatic tenors
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