Lodovico Graziani
Lodovico Graziani (14 November 1820 – 15 May 1885) was an Italian operatic tenor.Forbes, Elizabeth. "Graziani" in Sadie (2001). According to John Warrack and Ewan West, writing in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Opera'': "His voice was clear and vibrant, but he lacked dramatic gifts."Warrack, p. 299. He is now mainly remembered for having created the role of Alfredo Germont in the world premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's ''La traviata'' in 1853. Career Graziani was born in Fermo, Italy, into a musical family. Three of his brothers also became professional singers, in particular his younger brother Francesco Graziani (baritone), Francesco Graziani, who became a well known baritone and spent much of his career singing for the Royal Opera House, Royal Italian Opera (Covent Garden) in London. Lodovico studied with Cellini and made his debut in 1845 in Bologna in Carlo Cambiaggio's ''Don Procopio''.Kuhn, p. 285. In 1846 he was heard at the Regio Teatro degli Avvalorati in Livorno as Elvino ...
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Fermo
Fermo (ancient: Firmum Picenum) is a town and ''comune'' of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo. Fermo is on a hill, the Sabulo, elevation , on a branch from Porto San Giorgio on the Adriatic coast railway. History The oldest human remains from the area are funerary remains from the 9th–8th centuries BC, belonging to the Villanovan culture or the proto-Etruscan civilization. The ancient Firmum Picenum was founded as a Latin colony, consisting of 6000 men, in 264 BC, after the conquest of the Picentes, as the local headquarters of the Roman power, to which it remained faithful. It was originally governed by five quaestors. It was made a colony with full rights after the battle of Philippi, the 4th Legion being settled there. It lay at the junction of roads to Pausulae, Urbs Salvia, and Asculum, connected to the coast road by a short branch road from Castellum Firmanum (Porto S. Giorgio). According to Plutarch's ''Parallel Lives'', Cato the Elder thought highly ...
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