Claudio Bonoldi

Claudio Bonoldi (26 October 1783 – 14 February 1846 ) was an Italian tenor.

Musical career Bonoldi started his career as a lyric tenor, particularly suited to cover roles in opera buffa. Over the time, when his vocal timbre became darker and more resonant, he interpreted more dramatic parts, such as Pollione in Vincenzo Bellini's Norma. He also sang the roles of bass, such as Assur in Semiramide by Gioachino Rossini and Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His voice was categorised as baritenor.

He studied singing in his hometown with maestro Giacomo Carcani (1734–1820) and perfected his vocal training with maestro B. Gherardi. He began his career in 1803 at Teatro d'Angennes in Turin performing in parts of second half character. He made his debut at Teatro alla Scala in 1811 as Peronio in the premiere performance of Giuseppe Farinelli's Annibale in Capua. Rossini wrote for him the role of Giocondo for La pietra del paragone that was premiered on 26 September 1812 at La Scala.

Bonoldi has performed in many noted opera houses around Italy such as Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Argentina in Rome, Teatro Sant'Agostino in Genoa, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Ducale in Parma, Teatro Carcano in Milan, Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Comunale in Trieste, Teatro della Società in Rovigo, Teatro Avvalorati in Livorno, Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Teatro Municipale in Piacenza, Teatro lirico in Padua, Teatro Riccardi in Bergamo and Teatro Municipale in Cuneo.

Public success that he achieved in Italy allowed him to engage in theaters around France and Spain, where he received the nomination of Virtuoso da Camera from the King of Spain.

He retired from stage in 1842 and later teach opera singing at Milan Conservatory. He died in Lombardy's capital in 1846.

Repertoire Giuseppe Farinelli Annibale in Capua (Peronio), Milan, 1811 La chiarina (L'aiutante), Milan, 1815 Giuseppe Mosca Le bestie in uomini (Riccardo), Milan, 1812 I pretendenti delusi (Il conte Odoardo), Milan, 1813 Stefano Pavesi Nitteti (Amasi), Turin, 1811 Ser Marcantonio (Medoro), Milan, 1812 I riti d'Efeso (Agenore), Parma, 1812 Un avvertimento ai gelosi (il conte di Ripaverde), Milan, 1813 La muta di Portici (Masaniello), Venice, 1831 Pietro Generali Adelina (Erneville), Trieste, 1812 L'amore prodotto dall'odio (Don Rammiro), Milan, 1813 Bajazet (Acmet), Turin, 1813 I baccanali di Roma (Sempronio), Faenza, 1818 Adelaide di Borgogna (Ottone), Milan, 1819 Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi Ernesto e Palmira (Ernesto), Milan, 1813 Ercole Paganini Cesare in Egitto (Tolomeo), Turin, 1814 Carlo Coccia Euristea (Tebandro), Venice, 1815 Ferdinando Paër L'eroismo in amore, Milan, 1815 Joseph Weigl Il ritorno d'Astrea (Cantata), Milan, 1815 La famiglia svizzera (Jakob), Milan, 1816 Michele Carafa Ifigenia in Tauride (Oreste), Napoli, 1817 Peter Winter I due Valdomiri (Ulrico), Milan, 1817 Giovanni Pacini Vallace (Vallace), Milan, 1820 Temistocle (Temistocle), Milan, 1823 Gioachino Rossini La pietra del paragone (Giocondo), Milan, 1812 Sigismondo (Ladislao), Turin, 1814 Armida (Ubaldo e Germano), Napoli, 1817 Ciro in Babilonia (Baldassarre), Milan, 1818 Otello (Otello), Trieste, 1818 Bianca e Falliero (Contareno), Milan, 1819 Aureliano in Palmira (Aureliano), Venice, 1820 Eduardo e Cristina (Carlo), Lucca, 1820 Maometto secondo (Paolo Erisso), Milan, 1824 Semiramide (Assur), Padua, 1824 Domenico Cimarosa Gli Orazi e i Curiazi (Marco Orazio), Parma, 1811 Giovanni Paisiello Il barbiere di Siviglia (Lindoro), Milan, 1811 Giovanni Simone Mayr Elisa (Teorindo), Milan, 1813 La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa (Vanoldo), Genova, 1813 Ginevra di Scozia (Polinesso), Milan, 1816 Atar (Assur), Genova, 1814 Vincenzo Bellini Norma (Pollione), Milan, 1832 Beatrice di Tenda (Filippo Visconti), Milan, 1833 Gaetano Donizetti L'esule di Roma (Fulvio) Trieste, 1833 Torquato Tasso (Torquato Tasso), Cuneo, 1835 Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo (Cardenio), Cuneo, 1835 Giacomo Meyerbeer Semiramide riconosciuta (Ircano), Turin, 1819 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni), Milan, 1816 Carlo Evasio Soliva La testa di bronzo (Federico), Milan, 1816 Berenice d'Armenia (Lucio Antonino), Turin, 1816 Giulia e Sesto Pompeo (Ottavio), Milan, 1817 Paolo Bonfichi Abradate e Dircea (Ciro), Turin, 1817 Beniowski (Igor), Venice, 1831 Gaspare Spontini La Vestale (Cinna), Milan, 1824 Gustavo Carulli I tre mariti (Belmont), Milan, 1824 Francesco Sampieri Pompeo in Siria (Clearco), Milan, 1824 Antonio Sapienza Gonzalvo (Ferdinando), Milan, 1825 Giuseppe Persiani Danao re d'Argo (Danao), Livorno, 1827 Giuseppe Nicolini Ilda D'Avenel (Fergusto), Bergamo, 1828 Il conte di Lenosse (Clarendon), Venice, 1830 Ramon Carnicier Elena e Costantino, Barcelona, 1822 Don Giovanni Tentorio, Barcelona, 1822