Marco Bordogni

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Giulio Marco Bordogni (1788 – 31 July 1856), usually called Marco Bordogni, was an Italian operatic tenor and singing teacher of great popularity and success, whose mature career was based in Paris.^[1]

Bordogni was born near Bergamo, Italy. He made his operatic debut at La Scala, Milan in 1813, in Tancredi. In 1825 he created the role of Conte di Libenskof in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims. He sang for many years at the Théâtre des Italiens in Paris. He became a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire in 1820 and continued to teach there almost until the time of his death, which occurred in Paris. He was the author of a published singing method, and composed many sets of vocalises, which remained in use for a century afterwards. He was probably the most influential teacher of the English tenor Sims Reeves, who went to him in 1843.^[2]

Bordogni was awarded the Légion d'Honneur on 10 May 1839 by M. de Gasparin, at the same time that it was awarded to the Director of the Opéra Duponchel, and to the composer Hector Berlioz, who wrote that Bordogni was the best singing-master of that period.^[3] His daughter Louise Bordogni sang successfully in New York in 1834.

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