Ugo Benelli Born 1935 Compilation of the Amazing tenor di grazia

0:00 Povero Ernesto!, Cercherò lontana from Donizetti's Don Pasquale 7:56 Una furtiva lagrima from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore 12:16 Se tanto in ira agli uomini from Donizetti's from Linda di Chamounix 18:11 E' la voce che primiera from Donizetti's from Linda di Chamounix 12:44 In giorno si bello from Rossini's La Riconoscenza 27:29 Prendi L'anel ti dono from Bellini's La Sonnambula 35:38 Principe piu non sei from Rossini's la Cenerentola 41:33 Que les destins prospères from Rossini's Le comte ory sung in italian 46:05 Ah mes amis quel jour de fête from Donizetti's La fille du regiment sung in italian 51:40 Pietoso al lungo pianto from Verdi's Un giorno di regno 56:45 Agnès la jouvencelle, Je vois marcher from Auber's Fra Diavlo sung in italian 01:04:48 Il lamento dell'amante from Boccherini's La Clementina 01:10:20 É la solita storia del pastore from Cilea's L'arlesiana 01:14:28 Oh come il fosco impetuoso nembo from Rossini's La pietra del paragone 01:22:25 Un'aura amorosa from Mozart's Cosi fan tutte 01:26:43 Che belta, che leggiadria from Mozart's La finta giardiniera 01:31:41 Malia by Paolo Tosti 01:34:45 O del mio amato ben by Stefano Donaudy THE END :) Ugo Benelli (born 20 January 1935) is an Italian operatic tenor. Born in Genoa and trained at La Scala, Benelli had an international career singing leading tenore di grazia roles from the early 1960s through the 1980s. In his later years he sang character roles and began a career as a singing teacher.[1] He retired from the stage in 2004. Life and career Benelli was born in Genoa where his father and grandfather worked as hat makers. He studied singing in Milan with Pietro Magenta and then won a scholarship to La Scala's training school for young singers, where he studied under Giulio Confalonieri and Ettore Campogalliani. He began his singing career in Montevideo in 1958 in Salieri's comic intermezzo Arlecchinata while on a tour of Latin America with the chamber opera company Opera da Camera di Milano. In 1960 he began singing at the Teatro della Piccola Scala (La Scala's chamber theatre) and then at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu as Fenton in Verdi's Falstaff, which he considers to be his official debut.[2][3] He was then engaged to sing on the main stage at La Scala, first in the small role of Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos in 1963, and then in the leading role of Giocondo in La pietra del paragone in the 1967 season. He returned to La Scala in 13 more productions between 1967 and 1999, as well as giving a solo concert of bel canto tenor arias in 1976 with Pierluigi Urbini conducting the La Scala Orchestra.[4] Benelli went on to make house debuts at a number of other major European and North American opera houses and festivals, including the Glyndebourne Festival, where he made his debut in 1967 as Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore and returned in subsequent years as Narciso in Il turco in Italia (1970), Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville and Trouffaldino in The Love for Three Oranges (1982), and Don Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro (1984).[5] In addition to his Glyndebourne debut, 1967 saw Benelli's house debuts at La Fenice as Filipeto in I quatro rusteghi and the Teatro di San Carlo as Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore. Royal Opera House When Benelli made his debut at London's Royal Opera House singing Ernesto in Don Pasquale in 1974, the English critic Harold Rosenthal wrote, "Mr Benelli's Ernesto was the best I remember in the theatre, and except for the classic Tito Schipa performance on records, the best sung I have ever heard."[6] Benelli had been singing the role from the earliest days of his career. He sang it in Costa Rica during the 1958 Latin American tour and recorded it for Deutsche Grammophon in 1965.[7] Wexford Festival Opera Benelli's long association with Wexford Festival Opera began in 1965 as Belfiore in La finta giardiniera. He returned the following year to sing the title role in Auber's Fra Diavolo and went on to sing Nencio in L'infedeltà delusa (1969), Bertrando in L'inganno felice (1970), Ernesto in Il giovedì grasso (1970), Ecclitico in Il mondo della luna (1978), and a series of celebrity recitals in the 1980s. He returned once more to the festival in 1998 to give the Tom Walsh Memorial Lecture. His subject was the tenore di grazia.[3] In the mid-1980s Benelli moved to singing character and buffo tenor roles. These included Don Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro, which he sang at Glyndebourne, the Salzburg Festival, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and at the Metropolitan Opera for his house debut in 1986; Guillot de Morfontaine in Manon at La Scala and the Teatro Carlo Felice; Sendorf in The Makropulos Affair at the Teatro San Carlo; John Styx in Orpheus in the Underworld at the Teatro Regio in Turin, and Jack O'Brien in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Teatro Carlo Felice.[8])