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LABLACHE, LUIGI (1794–1858)

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LABLACHE, See also:LUIGI (1794–1858) , Franco-See also:Italian See also:singer, was See also:born at See also:Naples on the 6th of See also:December 1794, the son of a See also:merchant of See also:Marseilles who had married an Irish See also:lady. In 18o6 he entered the Conservatorio della Pieta de Turchini, where he studied See also:music under See also:Gentili and singing under Valesi, besides learning to See also:play the See also:violin and See also:violoncello. As a boy he had a beautiful See also:alto See also:voice, and by the See also:age of twenty he had See also:developed a magnificent See also:bass with a See also:compass of two octaves from Eb below to El) above the bass stave. After making his first See also:appearance at Naples he went to See also:Milan in 1817, and subsequently travelled to See also:Turin, See also:Venice and See also:Vienna. His first appearances in See also:London and See also:Paris in 183o led to See also:annual engagements in both the See also:English and See also:French capitals. His reception at St See also:Petersburg a few years later was no less enthusiastic. In See also:England he took See also:part in many provincial musical festivals, and was engaged by See also:Queen See also:Victoria to See also:teach her singing. On the operatic See also:stage he was equally successful in comic or tragic parts, and with his wonderfully powerful voice he could See also:express either See also:humour or pathos. Among his See also:friends were See also:Rossini, See also:Bellini, See also:Donizetti and Mercadante. He was one of the See also:thirty-two See also:torch-bearers chosen to surround the See also:coffin at See also:Beethoven's funeral in 1827. He died at Naples on the 23rd of See also:January 1858 and was buried at Maison Lafitte, Paris. Lablache's Leporello in See also:Don Giovanni was perhaps his most famous impersonation; among his See also:principal other roles were Dandini in Cenerentola (Rossini), See also:Assur in Semiramide (Rossini), Geronimo in La Gazza Ladra (Rossini), See also:Henry VIII. in See also:Anna Bolena (Donizetti), the See also:Doge in See also:Marino See also:Faliero (Donizetti), the See also:title-role in Don Pasquale (Donizetti), Geronimo in Il Matrimonio Segreto (See also:Cimarosa), Gritzenko in L'Etoile du See also:Nord (See also:Meyerbeer), Caliban in The See also:Tempest (See also:Halevy).

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