Giovanni Severi

A tenor, who created Arvino in I Lombardi alla prima crociata at La Scala in Milan on 11 February 1843, and sang Ismaele in Nabucco at Brescia and Mantua in 1843-44. He had been Enrico in Maria de Rudenz at Turin and La Scala, and went on to the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon in 1845-46 and to the Teatro Tacón in Havana in 1846, where he was Oronte in I Lombardi. In 1855 he created the title role in Casella's Cristóbal Colón at Palma de Mallorca.