Pier Miranda Ferraro Suggest updates
Born Altivole, 30 October 1924.
Died Milan, 25 January 2008.
Italian tenor.
'Piero Miranda Ferraro studied with Bononi at the Venice School of Music. In 1950 he took part in the Scala Contest for young lyrical singers, and won. In the same year he appeared for the first time at the Teatro Nuovo, Milan, in “La Boheme,” achieving a most pronounced success. During the 1951-52 opera season he sang at La Scala in “Osteria Portoghese" by Cherubini, amongst other operas.
He achieved his greatest success in London by his appearance in the role of Cavaradossi in "Tosca.” '
Source
OperaScotland programme for Italian Opera Tour. (1953). London: Eugene Iskoldoff Productions
Roles in Scotland
- Mario Cavaradossi a painter
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Tosca 1953
- Manrico a chieftain under the Prince of Biscay
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Trovatore 1954
- Otello a Moorish general, Venetian Governor of Cyprus
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Otello 1967