Claudio Desderi (Claudio Desderi) |
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Claudio Desderi (Claudio Desderi) |

Claudio Desderi

Date of birth
1943
Profession
singer
Voice type
baritone
Country
Italy

Debut 1969 at the Edinburgh Festival (Gaudenzio’s part in Rossini’s Signor Bruschino). Since 1975 at La Scala. He has performed at the Salzburg Festival (1978-79), the Glyndebourne Festival (1981-84), and at Covent Garden (since 1987). Among the best parts of Mozart’s Figaro (he sang this part with success at the Glyndebourne Festival, in Covent Garden, Schaaf’s production, 1989), Leporello, Dandini’s Rossini parts in Cinderella (La Scala, 1981), Mustafa in The Italian Girl in Algiers, Bartolo (Covent Garden, 1994), title role in Signor Bruschino, etc. Toured in Moscow with La Scala in 1989 (Don Alfonso in Mozart’s So Do Everyone). Recordings include Leporello (video, conducted by Muti, Castle Vision), Bruschino (conducted by Marin, Deutsche Grammophon).

E. Tsodokov

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