Lodovico Buti

A baritone, who created Marcovaldo in La battaglia di Legnano at the Teatro Argentina in Rome in January 1849, at the start of a career of more than thirty years. He was Renato in Un ballo in maschera at Bologna, Parma, Florence and Porto in the early 1860s, and had sung at Warsaw in 1857. In the 1870s he took up Wagner, as the Herald in Lohengrin at Bologna in 1871 and at La Scala in 1873, and as Biterolf in Tannhäuser at Bologna in 1872. He was singing at Malta in 1883.