Ruggero Galli was an Italian
opera
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bass
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Music
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who had an active career during the late 19th and early 20th century. He created roles in several world premieres, including Menico in
Antonio Smareglia's ''
Nozze istriane'' (1895), Cesare Angelotti in
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for List of compositions by Giacomo Puccini#Operas, his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he ...
's ''
Tosca
''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...
'' (1900), and Pantalone De' Bisognosi in
Pietro Mascagni
Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece '' Cavalleria rusticana'' caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the ...
's ''
Le maschere
''Le maschere'' (''The Masks'') is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica.
The work was Mascagni's homage to Rossini and to the Italian opera buffa and commedia dell'arte traditions. It was ...
'' (1901). In 1897 he portrayed Schaunard in
La Scala
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's first staging of ''
La bohème
''La bohème'' ( , ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions '':wikt:quadro, quadri'', ''wikt:tableau, tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto b ...
''.
He also appeared in the 1915 Italian film ''La reginetta delle rose''.
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Italian operatic basses
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