Franco Ricciardi

Italian operatic tenor ( born 1921 ). Riccardi began his career shortly after the Second World War as a lyric tenor at major and middle opera houses in his native Italy. Since debuting as an opera singer in 1947 he gave at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. Until the early 1950s Riccardi sang in his ancestral role.