Raffaele Marconi

A bass, who created the old gypsy in Il trovatore at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on 19 January 1853. His career ran for twenty years, from Rome in 1852 to Bologna in 1873, and took him to Palermo, where he created a part in Piacentini's Marco Botzaris, to the San Carlo in Naples as the Grand Inquisitor in L'Africaine in 1867, and to La Fenice in Venice, as a friar in Don Carlos in 1869.