Giovanni Battista Cornago

A bass, who created Briano in Aroldo at the Teatro Nuovo in Rimini on 16 August 1857, taking the part as a favour, and sang it again at Turin and Venice. His career ran for thirty years, from 1849 to 1879, chiefly across northern Italy, in the bass parts of the Verdi repertory, Walter, Sparafucile, Ferrando, Fiesco, Zaccaria and Banco among them. He sang in seventeen other premieres, the last of them at La Scala in Milan, Josse's La Lega and Ponchielli's La Gioconda, both in 1876.