Fernando Carpi

Fernando Carpi
Fernando Carpi and wife in 1916
Born	(1876-01-22)22 January 1876 Florence, Italy
Died	3 August 1959(1959-08-03) (aged 83) Geneva, Switzerland
Occupation	Opera singer (tenor) Professor of singing
Years active	1905–1954

Fernando Carpi (22 January 1876 – 3 August 1959) was an Italian operatic tenor and later professor of singing.

Carpi was born in Florence, Italy in 1876. and made his operatic debut in Lecce in 1898. In 1905 he was in the cast of Leoncavallo' Zazà of at the Teatro de Novedades in Barcelona and in June of that year sang the role of Ernesto in Don Pasquale at the Theatre of Liege. In 1907, he appeared as Walther von Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. By 1908, he was appearing at London's Royal Opera House in the title role of Gounod's Faust along with Pauline Donalda and Marcel Journet. In 1909 and in 1910, he sang at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon.

After singing in Russia for two years, he returned to Italy in 1910, where he sang again at the Teatro Costanzi in Don Pasquale, alongside Giuseppe Kaschmann, Giuseppe De Luca and Rosina Storchio and in several other Italian opera houses. In March 1911, he sang the role of Enzo in Ponchielli's La Gioconda In 1913, he sang Elvino in Bellini's La sonnambula at the Teatro Regio di Torino with Rosina Storchio in a production conducted by Ettore Panizza. In May 1914, he appeared as at the Teatro Regio di Parma as Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, with Riccardo Stracciari, Graziella Pareto and Gaudio Mansueto. That same year he sang Alfredo in La traviata at the Teatro Comunale di Trieste, with Rosina Storchio as Violetta and Gabriele Santini conducting.