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Place of Birth: Portoferraio, Tuscany, Italy
About Renato Cioni
- Renato Cioni (15 April 1929 – 4 March 2014) was an Italian operatic lyric tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. Born in Portoferraio on the Isle of Elba, the son of a fisherman, Cioni received his main musical education at the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence.
- In 1956, as a result of winning an international voice contest organized by the Rome Opera, he made his stage debut at Spoleto, as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor.
- Earlier that same year he had appeared as Pinkerton, in a television production of Madama Butterfly, opposite another debutante, Anna Moffo. Cioni's career expanded thereafter, with debuts in such cities as Rome, Naples, Palermo, Venice, Genoa, Trieste, Bologna, and Catania.
- He made his La Scala debut on 4 March 1961, as Pinkerton, under Gianandrea Gavazzeni. Outside of Italy, in 1959, Cioni made his American debut at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, followed by a concert performance of Il duca d'Alba at Carnegie Hall in New York, which he had also sung earlier that year at the Spoleto Festival.
- He made his debut at the San Francisco Opera in 1961, as Edgardo.
- His UK debut was at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1962.
- His Metropolitan Opera was in 1970, as Pollione, opposite Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Horne. Cioni made a number of commercial recordings of opera, including studio recordings of Lucia di Lammermoor and Rigoletto, opposite Joan Sutherland, in 1961.
- His 1964 performance at La Scala as Alfredo in La traviata, opposite Anna Moffo and Mario Sereni, under Herbert von Karajan was also released commercially.
- He appeared in the Italian show The Winner Is on 8 December 2012. Cioni died in Portoferraio on 4 March 2014.
- His wife Loretta and their four children survive him.
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