as Arnold "William Tell"

ALFONSO GARULLI
(1856 – 1915)
Italian Tenor


At first a bank employee, he was for a short time a student of A. Busi at liceo musicale. He initially devoted himself to operetta and in 1877 made his debut in Milan in a short part in La fille de madame Angot by Lecocq, then becoming part of various companies. Debut as a lyric tenor April 1882 in Ravenna, in the theater Alighieri, as Rambaldo in "Roberto il diavolol " by. Meyerbeer. In the teatro Sociale Treviso he was a supporting actor until the autumn of 1882, when he played Alfredo in the Verdi 's "La Traviata" . In 1884 he was Don José in the "Carmen" by Bizet at the Manzoni theater in Milan; soon after he was invited to the Rossetti theater in Trieste for "Mignon " by Thomas. In January 1885 Don Jose " Carmen" at the S. Carlo in Naples,
Between 1886 and 1890 he sang at the Pagliano theater in Florence, and at the Covent Garden in London (1885 and 1887), at the Teatro Argentina in Rome (1886), at the Krolloper in Berlin, at the Liceo in Barcelona (1887), his repertoire also La Favorita" by Donizetti, " Lohengrin" Wagner. 8 Jan. 1887, at La Scala, he sang Valdo in " Flora mirabilis " by. Samara, and on April 9 of the same year Nadir "I pescatori di perle " by Bizet. At the Carcano theater in Milan, Mignon by . Thomas, and in the first Italian representation of "Mirella " by Gounod.

December 1890 he sang for the first time in "Cavalleria rusticana" by. Mascagni, at the Ristori theater in Verona, (1892-97) Canio in " I pagliacci " by Leoncavallo, Sang at the Malibran theatre Venice, the Theater of the Vienna Exposition, the Dal Verme of Milan, the Pergola of Florence, the Warsaw Opera (1893) and the Real of Madrid (1897).

At that time included in the repertoire also the Manon by Massenet,as Des Grieux (Rome, Costanzi theater, April 21, 1894); then the "Werther ", by Massenet (Trieste, Teatro Comunale, 7 March 1896). He performed again at La Scala in January 1896 in "Samson et d Dalila" by. Saint-Saëns,, and in "La Navarrese"m by Massenet.

From 1897 to 1907, G. alternated periods of activity with periods of absence from the scene due to a throat disease. In these years he appeared in the theaters of Lisbon, Madrid, Florence, London, Bologna, in secondary roles.

The final farewell from the public was in January of 1907 with Werther by Massenet at the theater Course of Bologna.

From 1907 he settled in Trieste, where he opened a singing school. At the outbreak of the First World War he had to leave Trieste and, increasingly ill, retired to his hometown of Bologna, where he died on May 28, 1915.