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Ettore Borelli

b. 1849 · Italian · baritone, bass

Birthplace: Bologna, Papal States

An Italian comic baritone, billed for most of his career as a baritono brillante, who sang from 1869 until at least 1901. In 1871 he created Roberto in Zecchini's La conversazione al buio. In the 1880s Figaro and Beppo in Fra Diavolo were his staple parts, and in 1895–96 he sang at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. At Rome's Teatro Costanzi in 1899–1900 he sang Don Pasquale and Dulcamara and created the sacristan in Tosca, and in 1901 he was Tartaglia in the Naples staging of Mascagni's Le maschere.

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