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Gualtiero Negrini (born January 24, 1961) is an American singer of Irish-Italian heritage.


Origins

Gualtiero Negrini was born to Luciano Negrini (a former Catholic Priest and
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opera singer from Milano, Italy), and Clare Mary Negrini (née Young, an Irish-American
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opera singer from Chicago). His great uncle, the
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Carlo Negrini Carlo Negrini (24 June 1826 – 14 March 1865) was an Italian spinto tenor and creator of Gabriele Adorno in Verdi’s opera ''Simon Boccanegra''. Early career Born as Carlo Villa to a humble family in Piacenza, Negrini studied first at the ...
, created the role of
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for
Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi ( ; ; 9 or 10 October 1813 â€“ 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi, his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the province of Parma ...
, in the premiere of
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in Venice in 1857. Throughout his youth, Negrini used to say that he had been born in Milano as a tribute to his father who had always lamented that none of his four sons had been born in Italy. Although he spent time there as a child and in subsequent years, he was actually born at the
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in California, and considers himself a proud Angeleno. He attended St Casimir's Elementary School,
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, and
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Opera Workshop, all in Los Angeles.


Conducting

Gualtiero Negrini began his studies at a very early age as a pianist and conductor under former
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conductor
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, and Dr. George Dawson of
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. He conducted his first performances at the age of 13, a two-piano performance of
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with a small local amateur opera company. In his subsequent teen years, he continued conducting productions with full orchestra of
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,
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, and
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. In the early 1990s, he co-founded the Opera Orchestra of Los Angeles, conducting critically acclaimed performances of Puccini's
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with
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stars
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and Giuliano Ciannella. With the same orchestra, Negrini also conducted Verdi's
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, and An Evening with
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– a gala concert featuring the Metropolitan Opera tenor Jerry Hadley. He would go on to conduct Los Angeles productions of
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,
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,
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, and
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. In 2000, Negrini conducted and produced the popular recording, Broadway Classic, featuring the renowned
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,
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. In 2010, he was approached to be the resident conductor of the Opera Arts Festival in
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, California, a post he held for six seasons.


Vocal Coach

Negrini is also an internationally respected vocal coach. He began with the USC Opera Workshop, after being offered a position as a repertoire coach there at the tender age of 16, and has maintained private teaching studios in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City. Through the years, he has coached
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singers
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,
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, Suzanna Guzman, tenor Raul Hernandez, and many others. He also coached actress and Jazz singer Bettina Devin of the movie
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, Franc D'Ambrosio of
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fame, TV and stage star
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, Broadway singing actresses
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, Aneka Noni Rose, Rachel Eskenazi-Gold,
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, and the
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-winning
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.


Singing

Negrini made his singing debut at age 15, as Dr. Malatesta in a production of
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mounted by a small company known as L'Opera Comique of Los Angeles that was founded by his father. At the age of 17, he made his tenor debut as Paolino in USC Opera's production of
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. Soon afterward, at age 19, he became a finalist in the 1980
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auditions. There, he was mentored by Walter Baracchi, the noted pianist-conductor who had been with Lyric Opera of Chicago for a decade, and previously with Milan's
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since the late 1950s. This launched a professional singing career for Negrini. In Chicago, he would go on to share the stage, and learn from
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,
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,
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,
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, and scores of other notables. Among his most successful performances were his portrayal of the "rock star" Nanki-Poo in
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's updated production of
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, and his rendition of Don Ramiro in the
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production of
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at the
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in Washington, D.C. – a role he would eventually perform over 100 times with many different opera companies. During this period he also performed the role of David in excerpts of
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with the
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under
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. He made history at Lyric Opera of Chicago when in 1982, at the age of 21, he replaced Gösta Winbergh as Ferrando in
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, making him the youngest tenor ever to sing a leading role there. Negrini has also been a finalist in the 1984
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Auditions, where he was a member of the
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. In the late 1980s, while continuing to sing throughout the United States, in such roles as Hoffmann in The
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, Lord Percy in
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and Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West, he was approached by
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to re-create the role of Ubaldo Piangi in
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's ''
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'' for its Los Angeles premiere. This would take Negrini through 8 years and over 3,000 performances of that role, in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. With noted soprano Lisa Vroman he sang the role of Martin in
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's
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for the Cabrillo Music Festival in 1999, and in 2000 they both sang in A Gala Vienna New Year's Eve with the
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under conductor
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. In March 2010 he played Tony in
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's
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to great acclaim with the Silicon Valley Symphony (formerly
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), once again with
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as his Rosabella. In 2011 he performed the role of
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in the musical W.R. & Daisy, for which he also recorded excerpts. In more recent years, he has appeared as a guest star on television shows such as the
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series
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and the
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series
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, in roles showcasing his talents as both singer and actor. In February 2018, he will be featured in a new episode of the hit FX series ''
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'', sharing the screen with
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, and the
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– winning
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.


Film and television

Negrini had dabbled in filmmaking with his high school friends as a teen, even producing a few film shorts, but it would not be until 1991 that he would revisit this genre. While in Los Angeles performing in ''
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'', he was asked to appear in period comedy ''
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'', starring
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and
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, in a scene as Figaro in ''
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''. In 2009, he appeared as the amiable opera-singing restaurateur who is rudely interrupted by Larry David in an episode of
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, and as an opera-singing sanitation engineer in a 2012 episode of
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. In 2013 he began production of Fairlane Road,Imdb.com
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in 2016. In the last weeks of 2017, Negrini appeared on Conan (TV Show) as
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in a short sketch, and ended the year on a high note as a featured guest in the upcoming season of
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. His voice has also been heard in countless commercials.


Personal life

Gualtiero Negrini lives just outside of Joshua Tree, California with his wife Lucy, to whom he has been married since 1989. They share three children together – Gina, Charles, and Sophia.


References


External links


Interview with Gualtiero Negrini
November 15, 1982 {{DEFAULTSORT:Negrini, Gualtiero 1961 births Living people American operatic tenors