Ruggero Raimondi is remembered in music for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Ruggero Raimondi as Italian opera singer.
Ruggero Raimondi was born at Bologna in 1941. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Broadcast radio, the LP and the touring circuit made this the first era in which a musician could reach a mass audience without ever meeting it.
He worked as actor, opera singer and director.
The instruments recorded are voice.
His work is classed as opera.
What survives in music is rarely what sold best at the time.
The honours record reads: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Order of Cultural Merit and Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (2015).
That the work came out of Italy shaped it: musical traditions, training institutions and the reach of a recording industry all differ by country.
Achievements
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Order of Cultural Merit
- Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise — 2015
- Instruments: voice
- Genres: opera
