Salvatore Puma (Racalmuto 1929 - 2007)

He studied singing in Parma and in Milan with former baritone Emilio Ghirardini. His debut was April 10, 1949 at the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro in the role of Radames in "Aida". Salvatore Puma has sung in the most important Italian theaters and music festivals of Verona (Arena), Torre del Lago (Puccini Festival), Florence (Maggio Musicale Florentino) and Rome (Terme di Caracalla). In addition, he sang in Paris, Strasbourg, Vienna, Brusels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Malta, Hamburg, Monaco, Zurich, Bucharest, Budapest, Sofia, Belgrade, La Coruna, Tokyo and Osaka. In the United States she sang in Philadelphia, New Orleans, Miami and Hartford. In Latin America sang in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago de Chile. Salvatore Puma belonged to a kind of singers almost "extinct" in our day: the lyric "content driven." He had the "bad luck" to coincide in time and place with many tenors singing the same repertoire: Vasco Campagnano, Mario Filippeschi, Roberto Turrini, Umberto Borsò, Giuseppe Vertecchi, Kurt Baum, Achile Braschi, Mario Nettle, Antonio Annaloro, Gastone Limarilli, Luigi Ottolini, Angelo Loforese, Rafael Lagares, José Soler, Carlos Guichandut, Prime Zambruno, Pier Miranda Ferraro, without forgetting TITANS, Mario del Monaco and Franco Corelli, and emerging Carlo Bergonzi and Flaviano Labo. In our time, Salvatore Puma would have no rivals. He had a normal repertoire of 25 roles tenor. His best role and what he has sung more frequently was undoubtedly Manrico in "Il Trovatore", closely followed by Andrea in "Andrea Chenier", Radames in "Aida" and Turiddu in "Cavalleria Rusticana". He has also been successful in "Pagliacci", "Standard", "Carmen", "Turandot", "Manon Lescaut" and "Tosca." It included roles from the very lyrical Edgardo in "Lucia di Lammermoor", the Duke in "Rigoletto" and Alfredo in "La Traviata" Johnson in "La Fanciulla del West", Enzo in "La Gioconda" and lead roles in "Ernani" and "Othello." photo Portrait of the tenor in the role of Andrea Chenier autographed Renato Amato.

Excellent condition