Kostas Paskalis; “Quel vecchio maledivami!“; RIGOLETTO; Giuseppe Verdi

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. ====================== Kostas Paskalis--Rigoletto Carlo Maria Giulini--conductor Orchestra del Teatro Communale, Firenze 1966 ====================== “Kostas Paskalis (1 September 1929, Levadeia - 9 February, 2007, Athens) was a Greek opera singer, one of the leading baritones of the 1960s and 1970s in Europe, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. Paskalis studied piano before turning to vocal studies at the Athens Music Conservatory. He sang in the chorus of the Athens Opera, before making his solo debut there, as Rigoletto, in 1951. His international career began in 1958, at the Vienna State Opera, as Renato in Un ballo in maschera, where he remained for 25 years, quickly establishing himself in all the major baritone roles of the Italian repertory, especially Verdi roles, notably Rigoletto, Macbeth and Iago. Macbeth was to be his debut role at both the Glyndebourne Festiv