Vittorio Lois

Lois was born in 1888. He made his debut at Sociale in Crema in 1912 (January) in Madama Butterfly.

His career evolved as follows:

1912 Crema

1913 Pesaro, Voghera

1914 Milano (Dal Verme), Modena

1915 Forlì

1916 Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Wellington

1917 Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney

1918 Singapore

1919 Melbourne, Sydney, Melbourne

1920 Wellington

1921 Bari, Porto Sant'Elpidio

1923 Sampiendarena, Palermo, Malta, Reggio Emilia

1924 Malta, Trieste, Tripoli, Milano (Dal Verme), Genova, Medicina, Modena, Bari, Padova, Haarlem (Il trovatore on 18 December), Amsterdam (Tosca on 4 December, sharing with Antonio Bagnariol who sang the first performance)

1925 Amsterdam (Pagliacci on 1 January), Den Haag (Aida on 13 January), Lugano, Vicenza, Medicina (near Bologna), Verona, Catania, Padova, Mantova, Napoli, Torino, Venezia

1926 Pisa, Genova, Boretto, Firenze, Mirandola, Napoli, Roma, Sassari

1927 Pisa, Adria, Rovigo, Schio, Pavia, Savona

1928 Ancona, Pisa, Fermo, Lucca, Palermo

1929 Parma (Reinach, Il trovatore on 30 March with Luigi Piazza, Ada Mattioli Donata, Vanda Giovanelli, Giuseppe Mosca with Gino Puccetti conducting .. il tenore che dovette trissare la Pira), Lisbona

1930 Novara, Genova, Montecatini, Viterbo, Milano (Dal Verme)

1931 Montecarlo, Pavia, Siena

1932 Piacenza, Modena

1934 Trieste

1937 Rovigo

1938 Pisa, Catania

1939 Messina, Macerata, Pistoia

His repertory included: Pinkerton, Rodolfo, Duca, Nadir, Turiddu, Edgardo, Manrico, Cavaradossi, Alfredo, Osaka, Faust, Canio, Pagliacci, Alvaro, Fernando, Enzo, Radames, Johnson, Pollione, ...

It is not unusual to read, in the Italian musical magazines of his time, "Lois sang the 'Pira' three times" when he appeared in Trovatore, the opera he sang most. He had an iron voice with wonderful high notes.

He became blind, but he continued to sing opera on stage. A friend of Roberto Marcocci listened to Lois in 1938 in Pisa in a performance of Il trovatore when he was already blind. Still more than fifty years later, he remembered his exceptional high notes. Also on that occasion, Lois sang the "Pira" three times.

He retired at the end of 1930s.

Discography Odeon Fonotipia, Milano, 27 October 1928 Pho 6444 Il trovatore: Ah sì, ben mio A 168197b Pho 6445-2 Il trovatore: Di quella pira A 168197a Odeon Fonotipia, Milano, 20 March 1930 xxPh 6569 Guillaume Tell: Allor che scorre XX 172077a with Massimo Andreoli & Albino Marone xxPh 6570 Guillaume Tell: Troncar suoi dì XX 172077b with Massimo Andreoli & Albino Marone Odeon Fonotipia, Milano, 21 March 1930 Mo 2898 Guillaume Tell: Corriam, voliam A 168283b xxPh 6573 Guillaume Tell: Ah! Matilde io t'amo XX 172078b with Massimo Andreoli Odeon Fonotipia, Milano, 22 March 1930 Mo 2903 Guillaume Tell: O muto asil A 168283a Odeon Fonotipia, Milano, 26 March 1930 xxPh 6591 Cavalleria rusticana: Viva il vino XX 172105b Odeon Fonotipia, Milano, 27 March 1930 xxPh 6595 Cavalleria rusticana: Tu qui, Santuzza? unpublished with Hilda Monti xxPh 6596 Cavalleria rusticana: Fior di giaggiolo unpublished with Margherita Cisbani & Hilde Monti xxPh 6597 Cavalleria rusticana: No, no, Turiddu unpublished with Hilda Monti Odeon Fonotipia, Milano, 29 March 1930 xxPh 6609 Cavalleria rusticana: O Lola XX 172105a with Maria Locarno La voce del padrone (1929) CM 993-1 Aida: Quest'assisa ch'io vesto DB 1320 with Benvenuto Franci, Luisa Lucini & Guglielmo Masini