Regolo Romani

Romani's posthumous reputation is somewhat distorted by his discography. From the mid-1950s, he sang his way through the Italian provinces. 1959 to 1988, he was permanently at La Scala, while making guest appearances in Italy and abroad (particularly in the USA). Both in his early years in the provinces, and later on wherever appearing as a guest, he always sang main roles, and regularly in really prominent casts: at the San Carlo in Naples for instance Duca, 1964; Edgardo at the Teatro Margherita in Genova, 1964 as well; at the Vienna Staatsoper, Riccardo in 1962 (with Hilde Rössel-Majdan and Aldo Protti) and Alfredo in 1963 (with Anna Moffo and Kostas Paskalis); in Philadelphia Rodolfo in 1964 (with Renata Tebaldi), Pinkerton in 1965 (with Renata Scotto), Edgardo in 1965 (with Anna Moffo