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Carlo Bergonzi
Carlo Bergonzi, born July 13, 1924 in Polesine Parmense, Italy, was an Italian
operatic tenor. After leaving school at age 11, he studied singing at the
Conservatorio Arrigo Boito in Parma and survived internment in a German
prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. He made his professional debut as a
baritone in 1948 playing Figaro in The Barber of Seville. In 1951 he retrained
as a tenor, debuting in Andrea Chénier at the Teatro Petruzzelli, and
subsequently debuted at La Scala in 1953 in Masaniello and at the Metropolitan
Opera in 1956 as Radamés in Aida. During the 1960s and ...
