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Lebendige Vergangenheit - Carlo Morelli / Luigi Montesanto

Artist Luigi Montesanto / Carlo Morelli
Title Lebendige Vergangenheit - Carlo Morelli / Luigi Montesanto
Release Date Thursday, March 11, 2010
Genre Classical > Aria
Composers E. De Leva, Amilcare Ponchielli, Jules Massenet, Gioacchino Rossini, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Giuseppe Verdi, Manuel Marìa Ponce, Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, Vincenzo Di Chiara, Umberto Giordano, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giacomo Puccini, Modest Mussorgsky, Maria Grever
Songwriter Diverse
Copyright © Preiser Records
Country AUSTRIA

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Lebendige Vergangenheit

Nach Überwindung zahlreicher Widerstände debütierte Morelli (der seinen Namen geändert hatte um nicht mit seinem Bruder, dem Bariton/Tenor Renato Zanelli verwechselt zu werden) 1922 am Teatro Municipale in Alessandria als Tonio in "Pagliacci". Von 1925 bis 1934 war er mit Unterbrechungen an der Mailänder Scala zu hören. Zwischen 1934 und 1942 sang er regelmäßig an der Chicago Civic Opera und parallel dazu von 1935 bis 1940 an der New Yorker Metropolitan Opera. Später ließ er sich in Mexiko nieder, wo er 1970 auch starb. Für ihn wurde in Mexiko City der “Carlo Morelli Gesangswettbewerb” ins Leben gerufen. After initial setbacks and disappointments he made his début at Alessandria's Teatro Municipale as Tonio in “Pagliacci” in 1922. In order to avoid having his name confused with that of his brother, the tenor/baritone, Renato Zanelli, he adopted "Carlo Morelli" as his stage name. From 1925 to 1934 he sang (with interruptions) at the Scala of Milan. Between 1934 and 1942 he appeared regularly at the Chicago Civic Opera and during the same period, from 1935 to 1940 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Later he settled in Mexico, where after his death in 1970 the “Singing Competition Carlo Morelli” was founded in his honour.