Mariano Conti

A tenor of the Rome theatres, who created Arrigo's squire in La battaglia di Legnano at the Teatro Argentina in January 1849. Over the next twenty years he took secondary parts at the Argentina and the Teatro Apollo, among them Raffaele in Stiffelio, and Borsa and Gastone in Viscardello and Violetta, as Rigoletto and La traviata were billed in Rome. He sang in the premieres of Terziani's Alfredo in 1852 and Cagnoni's La tombola in 1868, and at Corfu in 1859.