Umberto Urbano (16 October 1885 in
Livorno
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– 16 June 1969), was an Italian
baritone
A baritone is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the bass (voice type), bass and the tenor voice type, voice-types. It is the most common male voice. The term originates from the ...
opera singer. He made his debut in 1907 in Trieste. His career really picked up momentum in 1920, beginning as the Herald in ''
Lohengrin'' at
La Scala
La Scala (, , ; officially , ) is a historic opera house in Milan, Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as (, which previously was Santa Maria della Scala, Milan, a church). The premiere performa ...
. He also appeared there in 1923 as Telramund in ''Lohengrin'' and Enrico in ''
Lucia di Lammermoor''.
In 1924 he appeared at the
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272.
Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres ...
in a Special Sunday Concert.
[Sunday Concert Programmes, Royal Albert Hall Archives,(RAHE/1/1924/72/SC) http://catalogue.royalalberthall.com/Default.aspx?]
References
Italian operatic baritones
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