Napoleone Marconi
A tenor of La Scala in Milan for more than twenty years, from 1831 to 1853, who took small parts there nearly every season. In Verdi's first operas he created Delmonte in Un giorno di regno in 1840, Abdallo in Nabucco in 1842, the prior of Milan in I Lombardi in 1843, Jago in the La Scala Ernani of 1844 and Delil in Giovanna d'Arco in 1845. He sang in more than forty premieres at La Scala and the Canobbiana, from Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia in 1833 to Winter's Matilde di Scozia in 1852.
Creations
- Jago — Ernani (Milan, 1844)
- Delil — Giovanna d'Arco
- Priore della città di Milano — I Lombardi alla prima crociata
- Abdallo — Nabucco
- Delmonte — Un giorno di regno
Written from
- Corago (n.d.) Marconi, Napoleone. Università di Bologna opera performance database. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
- Giovanna d'Arco (1845) Milan, p. 3. Premiere libretto, Teatro alla Scala. (Accessed: 20 October 2026).
- I Lombardi alla prima crociata (n.d.) Milan: Ricordi, p. 1. Libretto with the cast of 11 February 1843. (Accessed: 20 October 2026).
- Zadig ed Astartea (1830) Naples, p. 4. Libretto. (Accessed: 20 October 2026).