Salvatore Baccaloni was an Italian bass, one of the great comic and character basses of the twentieth century. He was especially admired in Rossini, Donizetti and Italian buffo repertory.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with Riccardo Stracciari and in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore from the Metropolitan Opera.

Baccaloni’s singing combined vocal weight, timing, diction and comic instinct, making him a master of roles where theatre and music must move as one.

His page is essential for the Italian opera strand. Baccaloni gives the buffo shelf a bass voice with a grin, a wink and perfect machinery underneath.