Fernando Carpi

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Fernando Carpi
Geneva, Switzerland
Occupations
  • Opera singer (tenor)
  • Professor of singing
Years active1905–1954

Fernando Carpi (22 January 1876 – 3 August 1959) was an Italian operatic tenor and later professor of singing.

Life and career

Carpi was born in

Teatro Costanzi in Rome. By 1908, he was appearing at London's Royal Opera House in the title role of Gounod's Faust
along with Pauline Donalda and Marcel Journet. In 1909 and in 1910, he sang at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon.

After singing in Russia for two years, he returned to Italy in 1910, where he sang again at the Teatro Costanzi in Don Pasquale, alongside Giuseppe Kaschmann, Giuseppe De Luca and Rosina Storchio and in several other Italian opera houses. In March 1911, he sang the role of Enzo in Ponchielli's La Gioconda In 1913, he sang Elvino in

Teatro Regio di Parma as Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, with Riccardo Stracciari, Graziella Pareto and Gaudio Mansueto. That same year he sang Alfredo in La traviata
at the Teatro Comunale di Trieste, with Rosina Storchio as Violetta and Gabriele Santini conducting.

In February 1916 Carpi sang at the Paris Opera, again as Ernesto in Don Pasquale, with William Niola, Giuseppe Danise, and Elvira de Hidalgo. On 5 June 1916, he sang in The Barber of Seville at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa alongside Carlo Galeffi, Fanny Anitua, Joseph Kaschmann (Don Bartolo) and Nazzareno De Angelis (Don Basilio). He also sang at La Scala, Milan, with Titta Ruffo, Elvira de Hidalgo and Nazzareno De Angelis.

1916 also saw Carpi's debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York singing Alfredo in La traviata.[1] In 1917 he appeared there in the role of Tonio in La fille du régiment, with soprano Frieda Hempel and baritone Antonio Scotti and took part in gala concerts at the Met, with, among others, the soprano Claudia Muzio and the bass Jose Mardones. In 1918, still at the Met, sang Rodolfo in La bohème, with Frances Alda and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Geraldine Farrar. In 1919, he gave recitals in New York City,

Amelita Galli Curci and Riccardo Stracciari
.

In his later years Carpi became a noted singing teacher, first in Prague where his pupils

Eric Tappy
) and then in Milan where he continued to teach privately.

Carpi died on 3 August 1959 in

Geneva, Switzerland
.

References

  1. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2015-10-05.
  2. ^ Music News. Charles E. Watt. 1919-01-01.
  3. ^ The Music Magazine-musical Courier. 1920-01-01.
  4. ^ "New Rochelle Applauds Plea for Native Music". Musical America. April 17, 1920. Then Signor Carpi appeared amid considerable applause. His first selection was "Una Furtiva Lagrima" from "L'Elize d'Amore".
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