Arcangelo Balderi

A bass, who created Ferrando in Il trovatore at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on 19 January 1853. Rome was the centre of his early career, where he sang in the premieres of Terziani's Alfredo and Raimondi's Giuseppe in 1852 and of Lucilla's Il solitario and Giuliano Salviati at the Teatro Valle, and he was Sparafucile in Viscardello, a version of Rigoletto, at Lucca in 1853 and Treviso in 1857. His career went on to Venice, Ancona, Piacenza and Turin, and to the Teatro Carcano in Milan in 1871.