Giacinto Prandelli

Giacinto Prandelli (February 8, 1914) is an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian and French repertories.

Born in Lumezzane, Italy, Prandelli sang as a boy in a church choir. He studied in Rome with Fornarini, and in Brescia with Grandini, and made his stage debut at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, as Rodolfo, in 1942.

He made his debut at the Rome Opera in 1943, as Alfredo, he then appeared in Bologna, Genoa, Florence, Cagliari, Palermo, Catania, and made his debut in Milan, at the Teatro Lirico, as Rinuccio, in 1944. He sang the solo tenor part in Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony, under Arturo Toscanini in 1946.

In the early 1950s, he began an international career, appearing in Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Lisbon, Buenos Aires. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1951, his San Francisco Opera debut in 1954, and his Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1956.

He excelled in Italian and French lyric roles, such as; Edgardo, Duca di Mantua, Alfredo, Enzo, Rodolfo, Pinkerton, Cavaradossi, des Grieux, Werther, Gounod 's and Boito 's Faust, etc. He also sang in many contemporary works by Alfano, Wolf-Ferrari, Menotti, Respighi.

Prandelli retired from the stage in 1970, he can be heard in a number of recordings, notobly; "La bohème", "Fedora", "Adriana Lecouvreur", "Francesca da Rimini". He appeared in a television (RAI) production of "Manon Lescaut", opposite Clara Petrella in 1956.

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