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Cesare Valletti
Cesare Valletti was an Italian operatic tenor, one of the leading tenore di grazia of the postwar era. Valletti was born in Rome, where he studied music. He also studied privately with Tito Schipa. He made his debut in Bari, as Alfredo in La traviata, in 1947. He came to prominence in 1950, when he sang in Il turco in Italia, opposite Maria Callas, in Rome. In the same year he made his debut at La Scala in Milan, singing Fenton in Falstaff, a role he reprised when the company took the production to Covent Garden later that year. In 1951, Valletti went to Mexico City to sing La traviata with Maria Callas. He also partnered her in the famous Visconti production of La sonnambula, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, at La Scala in 1955, and again in La traviata at Covent Garden in 1958. In September 1953, he made his American debut at the San Francisco Opera in the title role of Werther, opposite Giulietta Simionato as Charlotte, and later that same year, in December, he debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, singing Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. Other roles at the Met included Tamino, Almaviva, Nemorino, Ernesto, Alfredo, and des Grieux. From Wikipedia (

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La traviata, Act I: Sempre libera (Violetta, Alfredo) (Live at the Coven Garden, 20/06/1958)
Maria Callas
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La sonnambula: Act I Scene 1: Sovra il sen la man mi posa (Amina, Chorus)
Maria Callas
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La traviata, IGV 30, Act I: "Follie!... follie!... Sempre libera degg'io" (Violetta, Alfredo)
Palacio de las Bellas Artes Orchestra
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L'elisir d'amore, Act II: Act II: Una furtiva lagrima
Cesare Valletti
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La sonnambula: Act II Scene 2: Ah! non giunge uman pensiero (Amina, Chorus)
Maria Callas

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Donizetti: Don Pasquale (1952 Recording)

2021
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Paperback Opera - Linda di Chamounix - Gaetano Donizetti

2009
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Bellini: La Sonnambula

1955
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Cesare Valletti Sings Schumann

2016
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Donizetti: Don Pasquale

2009
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Cimarosa: Il credulo (Excerpts) [Live]

2022
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Valletti - The Art of Song

2016
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Rossini: La Donna Del Lago

2008
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Il mito dell'opera: Cesare Valletti (Recorded 1950-1963)

2015
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527

2006

Singles & EPs

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona - Dominico Cimarosa: Il Matrimonio Segreto

Single • 2000

Videos

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Piano, pianissimo - Coro, Barbacini, Giménez (Il Barbiere di Siviglia-Rossini)

ThePrestigiosoGaston • 74K views
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Cesare Valletti sings Wolf Lieder (Live, 1959)

kadoguy • 992 views
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Buonasera mio signore

Baritono Maurizio Esposito • 1.1K views
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Luciana Serra - La morale in tutto questo - Don Pasquale - 1985

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Francisco Araiza - Cessa di piu resistere (remastered)

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Floris - Manuel Amati (23 anni)

Manuel Amati • 854 views
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Madama Butterfly: Act I, "Gran ventura"

ClassicalMomentsRec • 686 views
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La mamma morte.wmv

crewmantle • 866 views
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Il Barbiere di Siviglia "Ah! Qual colpo inaspettato!

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tarcisio ciavardini barbiere coro S.M -mi par d'esser con la testa .mp4

Tarcisio Ciavardini • 723 views

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Opera for the Ages

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