Ruggero Raimondi is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer who has also appeared in motion pictures.
Raimondi in concert, 1982
I vespri siciliani is a five-act Italian opera originally written in French for the Paris Opéra by the Italian romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi and translated into Italian shortly after its premiere in June 1855.
Scene from the opera (Lithograph by Roberto Focosi)
Verdi in 1859
Set design for Act V by Filippo Peroni