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Val di Casagrande

Copyright © 2007 Valentino di Casagrande

About Me


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Opera Singer/Dramatic Tenor. Fine Artist. Actor. At age 11, won a scholarship... went to The Sofia State School of Fine Art... after graduating continued studies at The Sofia State Academy of Fine Arts specializing in classical realism/painting, etching and sculpture. Concurrently studied singing in The Vocal Faculty of The Sofia State Conservatory of Music in the class of Prof. Hristo Brambarov...later on continued music/acting and art studies in London, England. Program Assistant for the BBC World Service from 1977 until 1984. Sings regularly in Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Coventry Cathedral, etc. Always in love with Toscana, Lourdes, french wines, french and italian food, beautiful women, beautiful music, beautiful paintings/sculptures and perfumes, etc. Repertoire: Beethoven/Ninth Symphony/Tenor Solo, Bizet/Carmen/Don Jose,Boito/Mefisofele/Faust, Cilea/Adriana Lecouvreur/Maurizio,Donizetti/Lucia di Lammermoor/Edgardo, Giordano/Andrea Chenier/Chenier,Gounod/Faust/Faust, Massenet/Werther/Werther, Puccini/Tosca/Cavaradossi,Puccini/La Boheme/Rodolfo, Puccini/Manon Lescaut/Des Grieux, Tchaikovsky/The Queen of Spades/Herman, Tchaikovsky/Eugene Onegin/Lensky, Verdi/La Traviata/Alfredo, Verdi/Luisa Miller/Rodolfo, Verdi/Don Carlos/Don Carlos, Verdi/Rigoletto/Duca, Verdi/Il Trovatore/Manrico, Verdi/Aida/Radames, Verdi/Requiem/Tenor Solo. Performances: Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Croydon Fairfield Hall, St James Piccadilly, Wigmore Hall, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry Town Hall,Ealing Town Hall, St. John's Smith Square.

My Interests

Sex. Meditation. Perfume. Wine. Wine. Perfume. Meditation. Sex.

I'd like to meet:


Music:

Opera, The great singers of the Golden Age, Renaissance composers like: Michael Praetorius c.1571-1621, Josquin des Prez, Tielman Susato c.1500-1561, Thomas Morley 1558-1602, Francis Pilkington ca.1570-1638, William Byrd 1543-1623, Orlando Gibbons 1583-1625, Thomas Weelkes 1576-1623, Queen Elizabeth I, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, etc.

Movies:

Rarely.

Television:

Sometimes, mostly art, fashion and music programs. But, I don't have time for television really and neither should you.

Books:

Greco-Roman Authors.Aeschines 390-314 B.C.E.Aeschylus 525-456 B.C.E.Aesop 6th century B.C.E.Apollonius ca. 295 B.C.E.Apuleius 124 A.C.E.-ca. 170 A.C.E.Aristophanes 450-388 B.C.E.Aristotle 384-322 B.C.E.Marcus Aurelius 121-180 A.C.E.Augustus 63 B.C.E.-14 A.C.E.Julius Caesar 100-44 B.C.E.Cicero 106-43 B.C.E.Demosthenes 384-322 B.C.E.Epicurus 341-270 B.C.E.Euclid ca. 300 B.C.E.Euripides 484-406 B.C.E.Herodotus 484-430 B.C.E.Hesiod 700 B.C.E.Hippocrates 460-377 B.C.E.Homer 800 B.C.E.Horace 65-8 B.C.E.Livy 59 B.C.E.-17 A.C.E.Lucretius 1st century B.C.E.Lycurgus 390-324 B.C.E.Lysias 445-380 B.C.E.Ovid 43 B.C.E.-17 A.C.E.Pindar 518-438 B.C.E.Plato 428-348 B.C.E.Plutarch 46-119 A.C.E.Sophocles 496-406 B.C.E.Tacitus 56-120 A.C.E.Virgil 70-19 B.C.E.Xenophon 431-349 B.C.E.

Heroes:

Michelangelo.