Giuseppe Ciampi by Caldesi

Giuseppe Ciampi (1832-1892); Italian bass.
He was a pupil of Luigi Ricci. In 1849 he started his singing career at Padua as a comprimario. In 1850 he had his first chance in Gorizia (Görz) to sing more important roles like Oroveso in Bellini's "Norma". In 1857 at the Teatro dell' Armonia in Trieste he sang at the première of "Il Diavolo a quattro", an opera composed by his teacher Luigi Ricci. In 1857 he also appeared in Rome at the Teatro Apollo. In 1859/60 he performed at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice and the Teatro Carignano in Turin. In 1860 he made a guest appearance in Brussels and in the same year at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where he was very successful as Geronimo in Cimarosa's "Il matrimonio segreto". He made further successful guest appearances in Paris, Monte Carlo, Vienna, St. Petersburg and all the major Italian opera houses. From 1861-1880 and again from 1887-1890 he performed regularly at London Covent Garden. In 1890 he retired from the stage at the Teatro Malibran in Venice with a performance of Donizetti's "Linda di Chamounix".