Fiorello Giraud (Girod)

As Werther in "Werther" by Massenet

Fiorello Giraud
1870-1928
Italian Tenor

Studied singing with Barbacini at the Parma Conservatory. He made his Debut in December 1891 at the Teatro Civico in Vercelli as Lohengrin. The following year he sang Canio in the world premiere of Pagliacci at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, Sang Wagnerian roles such as Tristan in Tristan und Isolde, Walther in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Siegfried in the first performance of Götterdämmerung at La Scala.

After he retired from the stage, he taught singing in Parma where he died in 1928 at the age of 57.