Renato Zanelli, nato Zanelli-Morales (Valparaiso 1892 - Santiago del Cile 1935)

Born in Chile ...

Renato Zanelli, nato Zanelli-Morales (Valparaiso 1892 - Santiago del Cile 1935)

Born in Chile Chilean mother and an Italian father, he studied in Switzerland and Italy. When he returned home to work in saltpetre father's factory, it was noted during a party by the Italian tenor Angelo Querze, which formed him for three years as a baritone. With this vocal register debuted at home in September 1916 as Valentin in Faust. The following year he sang in Montevideo as Tonio in Pagliacci and as Count di Luna in Il trovatore, roles he held in September of the same year in Santiago. In 1918 he went to New York, where a friend of his master, the low Spanish Andrés Perelló de Segurola, the hearing organized at the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera House, Giulio Gatti-Casazza. The audition was a success, so he made his debut at the Met in 1919, remaining in the US metropolis until 1923. He later went to Italy to continue his studies with Dante Lari and Fernando Tanara switching to tenor register. The new look debuted at the San Carlo in Naples as Raoul them The Huguenots, continuing his career between Italy and South America. He played in Turin for the first time Verdi's Otello in 1926, a role with which then made his debut at the Royal Opera House in London and that gave him more fame. On 29 April 1930 he sang in the premiere of The foreign Ildebrando Pizzetti at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. Photographic portrait of the baritone Ruggero Randaccio autographed, dated Naples, in April 1928.Excellent condition