Francesco Lodetti

A bass of the Milan theatres for more than thirty years, from 1827 to 1864. At La Scala he created Talbot in Giovanna d'Arco in 1845, and sang in thirteen other premieres, most of them in Milan, among them Mercadante's La schiava saracena in 1848 and Petrella's L'assedio di Leida in 1856. His Verdi parts in Milan ran from Pirro in I Lombardi and Leone in Attila to Ceprano in Rigoletto and the Marquis d'Obigny in La traviata, and he also sang at Parma, Turin and Zara.