Cesare Bossi

A bass of the Rome theatres in the 1850s, who created Samuel in Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro Apollo on 17 February 1859, and sang it again at Genoa in 1861. At the Apollo and the Teatro Argentina he took secondary parts, among them Pietro in Simon Boccanegra and Briano in Aroldo in 1858, and sang in the premieres of Vera's Adriana Lecouvreur in 1856 and of three new operas in 1860. In the 1860s he was at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, as Kuno in Der Freischütz and Gubetta in Lucrezia Borgia.