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Selected directory of the Italians in Chicago : market guide and yearly information bulletin …, 1933
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1VIRGILIO LAZZARI, Basso.
2Virgilio Lazzari was born at Assisi, Italy, the home of St. Francis. When he was sixteen, he went to Rome to study music. After two years he joined a light opera company, continuing in this line for nine years and touring Europe and South and Central America.
4Light opera offered no worthy setting for so great an artist and, in 1914, he made his first appearance in grande opera at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, without first obtaining the usually required approval of the Teatro La Scala in Milan. He also sang at the National Opera in Havana, the Municipal Opera in Mexico City and the Boston Opera. Five years later, he joined the ranks of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and appeared in the Ravinia Opera Company too. Bass voices are rare and the beauty of Virgilio Lazzari's voice was appreciated by Mary Garden, who chose him to appear in the leading basso roles with the Chicago Civic Opera Company. Virgilio Lazzari also excells in his concert work.
6Virgilio Lazzari has never lost his love for his native country. He thrills to the charm of Assisi, as all who have an artist's should, and he has made for himself a large number of photographs and moving picture film portraying the natural and artistic beauty of the birth place of the great Saint.
8Virgilio Lazzari has always been more than generous in lending his services for the benefit of his countrymen in Chicago when an appeal was made to him to sing at celebrations or benefits.
10JOSEPH RAFFAELLI, Manager of the Chicago Grand Opera Company, was born at Lucca, Tuscany. He had the equivalent of a college course and then studied at the Instituto Musicale of Lucca and at the Royal Conservatory of Music, of Florence, where he was a pupil of the famous Maestro Sbolci. He took a most comprehensive general musical course and specialized in the violoncello.
12He came to America in 1893, belonged to the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House of New York, then to the Manhattan Opera House of that city, and has been manager of the orchestra of the Chicago Grand Opera Company since the formation of that company twenty two years ago. A magnificent career told in few words.
14During his career he has had occasion to meet the greatest composers and directors of orchestra, forming thus innumerable precious friendships. But the friendships of Prof. Raffaelli are not limited to the great for his interest in and his good will toward his countrymen who seek his help and advice is unfailing. I have never met a more obliging man.
16Joseph Raffaelli has a high range of interest, his hobby is the study of history to which he devotes his leisure moments, and his favorite recreation is travel. He is correspondent of the University of Perugia.
18An artist and a teacher VITTORIO TREVISAN was born at Venice in Italy, from an ancient and noble family that had suffered reverses. One of his ancestors was Doge in 1583. He completed the equivalent of a college course along classical lines, and his interest in classical study and philosophy has never ceased, indeed the study of the classics still is his hobby.
20He had a good voice and studied voice culture at the Conversatory Benedetto Marcello. For ten years, he sang as leading baritone in the principal cities Europe and in Egypt. He came to this country and is known by every one for the roles he has held with the Chicago Civic Opera Company and the Ravinia Opera Company.
22One of the greatest achievements of Vittorio Trevisan has been to make Americans
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