Raffaele Arié

Raffaele Arié

Raffaele Arié (August 22, 1920, Sofia - March 17, 1988, Switzerland) was a Bulgarian bass, particularly associated with the Italian and Russian repertories.

Arié studied first in his native city with C. Brambaroff, making his stage debut at the Sofia Opera in 1945. He then left for Italy to further his studies, and was a pupil of Riccardo Stracciari, Apollo Granforte and Carlo Tagliabue. He made his debut at La Scala in 1946, as the King in "The Love for Three Oranges".

He sang widely in Italy, creating in Venice, the role of Trulove in "The Rake's Progress" in 1951. He also appeared at the Vienna State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the Paris Opera, and the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

His roles included; Osmin, Commendatore, Sarastro, Méphisto, Varlaam, etc. He was especiallyadmired as Fiesco, as both Filippo and Il grand Inquisitore in "Don Carlo", and as "Boris Godunov".

Arié possessed a deep, easily produced and fine-textured voice, he can be heard on record, as Raimondo in "Lucia di Lammermoor", opposite Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, under Tullio Serafin.

Other recordings

* 1960 - Bellini - "I puritani" - Anna Moffo, Gianni Raimondi, Ugo Savarese, Raffaele Arié - Coro e Orchestra della Rai Milano, Mario Rossi.

* 1974 - Verdi - "Luisa Miller" - Gilda Cruz-Romo, Luciano Pavarotti, Christina Angelakova, Raffaele Arié, Ferruccio Mazzoli - Coro e Orchestra della Rai Torino, Peter Maag.

ources

* "Grove Music Online", Noël Goodwin, Oxford University Press, 2008.


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