Domenico Cosselli
Domenico Cosselli (27 May 1801 in
Rossini
operas.
He began his vocal studies in his native city in 1814 and made his stage debut there in 1821. He quickly made a specialty of Rossini roles, singing in Parisina in 1833, also creating the role of Arnoldo in Pacini's Carlo di Borgogna, in 1835.
Cosselli was one of the first singers to make the transition between the old conception of the bass vocal range to what we know today as the baritone, a
Verdi
-baritone; the standard published score of Lucia contains several downward transpositions which mask the consistently high tessitura of the role as written for Cosselli.
He went on singing the florid bass roles of Rossini such as Mosè, Maometto, Assur, etc.
Sources
- Le guide de l'opéra, Roland Mancini & Jean-Jacques Rouveroux, (Fayard, 1986) ISBN 2-213-01563-5
- ISBN 0-521-27663-2
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