Vicente Sardinero
Vicente (Vicenç) Sardinero (12 January 1937 – 9 February 2002), né Sardinero-Puerto, was a Spanish operatic lyric
Teatro alla Scala was in 1967, as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, opposite Renata Scotto, subsequently appearing there in Il trovatore (1978), I due Foscari (1980), and Falstaff (as Ford, conducted by Lorin Maazel, and directed by Giorgio Strehler, 1981). Sardinero also sang at London's Covent Garden (Marcello in La bohème, 1976) and was often heard in zarzuela
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In 1968, he appeared at the New York City Opera, in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Pagliacci. In 1977, Sardinero sang at the Metropolitan Opera, as Marcello in La bohème. His alternating Mimìs were Ileana Cotrubaș, Katia Ricciarelli and Scotto; Dame Josephine Barstow, José Carreras and Justino Díaz were also in the performances, which were conducted by James Levine.
His recordings include L'amico Fritz (with
Jesús López-Cobos, 1976), Edgar ("live," with Carlo Bergonzi and Scotto, 1977), Roberto Devereux (with Caballé, Carreras, and Susanne Marsee, led by Julius Rudel
, 1977) and, again, Manon Lescaut (with Miriam Gauci, 1992).
The baritone died in the village of Villafranca del Castillo, near Madrid, in his sixty-fifth year.
Videography
- Massenet: Werther (Scotto, Kraus; Guingal, de Tomasi, 1987) [live] Bel Canto Society
References
- Who's Who in Opera, edited by Maria F. Rich, Arno Press, 1976. ISBN 0-405-06652-X
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