Antonio Tamburini by Pierre Petit

ANTONIO TAMBURINI
28 March 1800 – 8 November 1876
Italian baritone

Tamburini studied the orchestral horn with his father and voice with Aldobrando Rossi, before making his debut as a singer, aged 18, in La contessa di colle erbose (Pietro Generali) .Tamburini is famous for his association with the operas of Bellini such as I Puritani. Indeed, he was one of the so-called "Puritani Quartet" of leading international singers, along with Grisi, Rubini and the bass Luigi Lablache. The quartet was reunited on stage, albeit with Giovanni Mario replacing Rubini, in 1843 at the premiere of Donizetti's Don Pasquale.
A particular favourite with London and Paris audiences, Tamburini was married to the contralto Marietta Gioia-Tamburini. They often sang together.


He created :1820 Mercadante: Violenza e Costanza(Atlante):1822 Mercadante: Adele ed Emerico(Generale Banner) :1822 Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina(Picaro) :1824 Donizetti: L'ajo nell'imbarazzo (Don Giulio) :1826 Donizetti: Alahor in Granata (title role) :1827 Bellini: Il pirata (Ernesto) :1828 Donizetti: Alina, regina di Golconda(Volmar) :1828 Donizetti: Gianni di Calais(Rustano) :1828 Bellini: Bianca e Fernando (Filippo):1829 Pacini: Il talisamno (Riccardo Cuor di Leone) :1829 Bellini: La straniera (Valdeburgo) :1830 Donizetti: Imelda de' Lambertazzi (Bonifacio) :1831 Mercadante: Zaira (Orosmane) :1831 Donizetti: Francesca di Foix (il Re) :1831 Donizetti: La romanzesca e l'uomo nero (Filidoro) :1831 Coccia: Edoardo Stuart in Scozia(title role) :1832 Donizetti: Fausta (Costantino) :1835 Donizetti: Marin Faliero (Israele Bertucci) :1835 Bellini: I Puritani (Riccardo) :1836 Mercadante: I briganti (Hermann) :1843 Donizetti: Don Pasquale(Malatesta)