Giovanni Lanner

A tenor, who created Don Riccardo in Ernani at La Fenice in Venice on 9 March 1844, in a season there in which he was also Arvino in I Lombardi and Rustighello in Lucrezia Borgia. He sang secondary tenor parts for more than thirty years, from Venice in 1840 to Como in 1873, chiefly in Venice, Padua, Bologna and Milan, where he was Arvino again at La Scala in 1857. In 1862 he created two parts in Lambelet's Il castello maledetto at Corfu.