Riccardo Stracciari was an Italian baritone, one of the great Verdi baritones of the early twentieth century. He was especially admired for vocal beauty, legato and nobility of style.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in historic Italian opera recordings including Verdi’s Rigoletto and Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia under Lorenzo Molajoli.

Stracciari’s singing combined elegance, line and authority, preserving a classic Italian baritone tradition on early complete-opera recordings.

His page is essential for the historic Italian opera strand. Stracciari gives the Verdi and Rossini shelf a baritone voice in dark polished wood.