Vincenzo Paraboschi

A bass in secondary parts at La Scala in Milan from 1859 to 1874, among them Baron Douphol in La traviata, Gessler in Guillaume Tell, Wagner in Faust and Thoré in Les Huguenots. There he created Rodolfo di Sassonia in Peri's Rienzi in 1862, and in 1869 the surgeon in the revised La forza del destino and Don Manuel Arias in Marchetti's Ruy Blas. At the Teatro della Pergola in Florence in 1868 he sang in the first performances of Gialdini's Rosmunda and Taddeucci's Armida.