Luigi Stecchi-Bottardi

Luigi Stecchi-Bottardi was a tenor from Ferrara, billed as Stecchi, as Bottardi or as both, who created the messenger in Aida at Cairo on 24 December 1871. From the 1840s he sang across Italy, most often at Genoa, Pesaro and Naples, and at St Petersburg in 1853. At the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 1861 he took leading parts, Almaviva, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Fernando in La favorite and Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia, and at Genoa he created Pieretto in Cagnoni's Le figlie di Don Liborio in 1856. He died at the Casa di Riposo per Musicisti in Milan.