Nicola Martinucci
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Nicola Martinucci (born on 28 March 1941) inTaranto, Italy, is an Italian tenor who made his operatic debut in 1966 as Manrico in Il Trovatore at Milan's Teatro Nuovo. He won the Viotti Competition as Calaf and with the encouragement of Mario del Monaco, soon appeared in theatres all over Italy.
In the early 1980s his debut at the Arena di Verona as Radames in Aida was to bring him back several times in that role and that of Calaf.
Despite wide recognition as a tenor of note in the Verdian, Puccinian and verismo repertoire, his debut at La Scala did not come until late (1983) and his American debut at the Met not until 1988 when he appeared as Calaf opposite Ghena Dimitrova. He has since returned as Radames (with Alessandra Marc as Aida), Andrea Chénier (with Aprile Millo), Dick Johnson in La Fanciulla del West and Canio in I pagliacci (with Daniela Dessí). He has appeared in all the major opera houses of the world, including Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Zurich Opera, San Francisco Opera, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Comunale in Florence, as well as in Moscow, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Seville, Cairo (set against the pyramids) and in China.
He has sung under the baton of some of the greatest conductors, including Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Sir Colin Davis, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Nello Santi and Giuseppe Sinopoli.
In addition to the roles mentioned mentioned above, his repertoire also includes the roles of Cavaradossi, Pinkerton and Marat in Mascagni's Il piccolo Marat.
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