Piero de Palma

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Piero de Palma (b. 1925 ?) is an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with comprimario roles.

He began his career in 1948 by singing on Italian radio (RAI) and made his stage debut in 1952 at the San Carlo in Naples, where he was to performed regularly until 1980. The same year saw his debuts at the Rome Opera and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, he then went on singing throughout Italy, appearing in Genoa, Palermo, Catania, Trieste, Bergamo, etc., he also appeared at the Baths of Caracalla and the Verona Arena, and made his debut at La Scala in Milan in 1958.

He made a specialty of character roles and became perhaps the finest and most famous of all postwar comprimario artists, he possessed a fine voice and was an outstanding actor. He sang an estimated 200 roles, amongst his most famous were Dr. Cajus in Falstaff and Pong in Turandot. Other notable roles included Basilio, Normanno, Malcolm, Borsa, Gastone, Cassio, Edmondo, Goro, Spalanzani, etc.