Giacomo Roppa

Giacomo Roppa was an Italian tenor who created Jacopo in Verdi's I due Foscari at the Teatro Argentina in Rome in 1844. Active from about 1830, he sang at Livorno, Bologna and La Fenice, where he created Aladino in Mercadante's Emma d'Antiochia in 1834, then at the Teatro Regio in Turin and at La Scala in 1838–39. The Foscari premiere went badly for him, but he was later admired in the role at Parma. He sang at the Liceu in Barcelona from 1848 to 1851 and was still singing in the mid-1850s.