Aurelio Viale
An Italian baritone whose career ran for more than a quarter of a century. At the Politeama Reinach in Parma in the 1893-94 season he sang Tonio in Pagliacci and Sallustio in Ruy Blas, and in 1895 he created Rodrigo in Maria Sanz at Bergamo. He was Tartaglia at Verona in the simultaneous premiere of Mascagni's Le maschere on 17 January 1901, and at La Scala on 17 February 1904 he created Yakusidé in Madama Butterfly. In 1911 he created Tonio in Zandonai's Conchita in Milan, and he was still singing Benoît and Alcindoro at Bari in 1920.
Creations
- Yakusidé — Madama Butterfly (Milan, 1904)
Written from
- IMLA: L'opera migrante (n.d.) Aurelio Viale. Università Ca' Foscari Venezia. (Accessed: 27 September 2026).
- Casaglia, G. (n.d.) 'Aurelio Viale', in L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia. (Accessed: 27 September 2026).
- Wikipedia (2026) Conchita (opera). (Accessed: 27 September 2026).
- La Casa della Musica (n.d.) Teatro Reinach, 1894. (Accessed: 27 September 2026).
- Pecci, R. (2013) 'Mirto di Venere e vino di Bacco: «Dovunque al mondo»', La Fenice prima dell'opera, 2012–13(5), p. 28. (Accessed: 27 September 2026).