Маурицио Грациани

Born in Macerata, Maurizio Graziani studied at the Gioachino Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro with Emma Raggi Valentini and continued at the Accademia Lirica in Osimo and at the Salzburg Mozarteum, working with Arrigo Pola, Ettore Campogalliani, Sesto Bruscantini, Gianni Raimondi, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Carlo Bergonzi and Franco Corelli. From the late 1980s he sang the heavier Italian repertoire across Europe, the Americas and East Asia: Andrea Chénier, Manon Lescaut, La fanciulla del West, Il trovatore, Turandot, Tosca, Fedora, Stiffelio and La forza del destino. He made the first complete recording of Giordano's Mala vita, for Bongiovanni, and in his last years worked to promote bel canto. He died in 2014.