Alberto De Bassini (Baritone) (Firenze 1847 - Milan?)

He was the son of a famous italian baritone Achille De Bassini (1819-81), who appeared in 1849 in the premiere of Verdi’s ‘’Luisa Miller’’ and in 1862 at St. Petersburg in ‘’La forza del destino’’. His mother was a famous soprano Rita Gabussi (1816-91). He was trained by his father and debuted in 1870 at Venice in Donizetti’s ‘’Belisario’’  together with his father. in 1881 he sang at the Teatro Paganini in Genoa, then at the Teatro Malibran in Venice as Almaviva in ‘’Il barbiere di Siviglia’’. In 1883 De Bassini appeared at the Teatro Carcano in Milan. In 1890 De Bassini made his second debut, this time as a baritone, in Teatro Filodramatico, Milan. As a baritone he was not very successful in Italy, and in 1898 he emigrated to the North America, where he appeared at different opera societies especially in French repertoire. Later he was a song pedagogue in New York.

Chronologhy of some appearances

1890 Milano Teatro dei Filodrammatici Barbiere di Siviglia (Almaviva)
1892 Napoli Teatro Sannazzaro Elisir d'amore (Belcore)
1897 New York Waldorf Astoria Il  Ritratto di Manon (De Grieux)

RECORDINGS FOR SALE

Bettini cylinders, New York 1897 - 1899

Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti): Guai se ti sfugge un moto with Dante Del Papa and Rosalia Chalia 3

Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini): Dunque io son with  Rosalia Chalia 7Pagliacci (Leoncavallo): Un nido di memorie 7

Otello (Verdi): Credo 34

Aida (Verdi): Ed in suo potere io sto…Rivedrai le foreste wih Gina Ciaparelli

Ruy Blas (Marchetti): Duetto Maria-Sallustio with Gina Ciaparelli 

Guglielmo Tell  (Rossini): Troncar suoi di with Dante Del Papa and Vittorio Girardi

Berliner, New York 1897 - 1898

Africana (Meyerbeer): All' erta marinar  1113

Sonnambula (Bellini): Vi ravviso  1114

Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini): Largo al factotum 1115

Columbia, New York 1902?

Trovatore (Verdi): Il balen  307
Non è ver (Mattei) 154

Columbia, New York 1903
Faust (Gounod): Dio dell'or 1237

Columbia (discs & cylinders), New York 1904

Martha  (Flotow): Solo, profugo with Ferruccio Giannini 1771 A543