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Ferruccio Furlanetto 65 - Arpeggio, 16th May, 2014
Friday, 9 May 2014
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‘It was written that he should be the most important bass of his time.’ – the magazine the Star wrote after Ferruccio Furlanetto’s extraordinary performance in Jules Massenet’s Don Quichotte. His interpretation at the San Diego Opera on 12th April, 2014, is the most recent proof of his talent.
The Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto made his first appearance on a lyrical stage in Lonigo in 1974. It was followed by another important debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1979 – in Verdi’s Macbeth, conducted by Roberto Abbado.
Throughout his career, he has sung many parts, such as Don Giovanni and Leporello in Don Giovanni by Mozart, Philip II in Don Carlos by Verdi, Figaro in the Marriage of Figaro by Mozart, Gremin in Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, Zaccaria in Nabucco by Verdi, Mefisto in Faust by Gounod, Oreste in Elektra by Strauss, Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra by Verdi, among many others.
His presence on the stages of great lyrical theatres of the world has been much appreciated. He made his debut at the New York Metropolitan Operan in the 1980-1981 season, and then at the Paris Opera, the Salzburg Opera, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Vienna Opera, the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv and the Royal Opera in London.
He was invited to sing in Mozart’s Coronation Mass under Herbert von Karajan’s baton in the presence of Pope John Paul II. That extraordinary concert in Vatican was broadcast all over the world.
Born in 1949, the Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto turns 65 on 16th May, 2014. We will be able to listen to him performing arias from operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on Arpeggio, during the section Opera and its stars produced by Iolanda Drâmbei.
Gina Macsențian
Translated by Irina Borțoi and Elena Daniela Radu
MTTLC, The University of Bucharest
Translated by Irina Borțoi and Elena Daniela Radu
MTTLC, The University of Bucharest
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