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Franco Lo Giudice (Tenor) (Paterno 1893 - Catania 1990)
He was the older brother of the tenor Silvio Costa Lo Giudice (1896-1982) and a distant cousin of Portuguese soprano Maria Giudice. He decided to become a singer, after he had heard records of Enrico Caruso. He studied with Beniamino Carelli in Naples and with Aderno in Catania; he took vocal lessons also from Luigi Lucenti and Di Cagno in Milan which was interrupted in 1914 by his military service in the First World War. As a soldier he gave during the First World War concerts for Italian front-line soldiers. In 1919 he made his stage debut as Gastone in ‘’La Traviata’’ at the opera house in Livorno. In 1920 he sang in Giordano’s ‘’Andrea Chenier’’ at the Teatro Verdi of Torino. In 1922 he performed at the Teatro Civico in Rome in the title role of Catalani’s ‘’La Wally’’. Since 1925 he often sang at La Scala, where he made his debut in the world premiere of Zandonai's ‘’I cavalieri di Ekebu’’ under the baton of Arturo Toscanini. In 1926 he shared the the role of Prince Calaf with Miguel Fleta in the original production of Puccini's ‘’Turandot’’. At La Scala he also sang in ‘’La Fanciulla del West’’, ‘’La Wally’’, ‘’Amore dei tre Re’’ and ‘’La cena delle beffe’’. On 4. 2. 1928 he appeared at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in the premiere of the opera ‘’Giuliano’’ of Zandonai, on 14. 3. 1928 at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome in ‘’Dafni’’ of G. Mue. He guested in Santiago del Cile and Rio de Janeiro and Chile. He appeared till the 1930s at La Scala and was to be heard during the following ten years still often in stages in the Italian province. Later as a professor he taught at the conservatory of Catania.
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