Raffaele D'Ottavi

A bass, who created a friar in the Naples Don Carlos in December 1872. He had been at La Scala in 1871, in L'Africaine and Faccio's Amleto, and in Florence in 1872 he was Cosimo de' Medici in the premiere of Bensa's Astolfo Cavalcanti. In Rome he sang in the first performances of Sangiorgi's Diana di Chaverny in 1875 and Lucilla's La bella fanciulla di Perth in 1877. He was the Grand Inquisitor at La Scala in 1878-79, Oroveso at the Teatro Costanzi in 1880 and Andrea Cornaro in La reine de Chypre at Parma in 1882.