Ruggero Raimondi, famous for his impressive voice, lives in Monaco. The famous Don Juan became a Mon\u00e9gasque under Prince Albert II. He received the Legion of Honour in Paris.<\/p>\n\n
He learned to play the piano at the age of seven and began studying accounting. As he entered his teens, his family began to see a possible career in opera. Ruggero entered the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan at the age of 16.<\/p>\n\n
I need to share with young singers what I have experienced and felt on stage. I have fifty years of international career experience behind me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
In 1964, he won the competition for young singers at Spoleto and made his stage debut the same year. He became the understudy for Nicola Rossi-Lemeni at the Rome Opera. <\/p>\n\n
He resumed the role of Procida at the Paris Opera in 1974 and participated in the birth of a new genre: the film-opera, he played Don Giovanni, directed by Joseph Losey. <\/p>\n\n
In 2003, Ruggero brought the opera \u00abDon Carlos\u00bb onto the stage of the Monte-Carlo Opera. Today, this Monegasque gentleman of Italian origin lives in the Principality with his wife Isabelle, whom he met back in 1971.<\/p>\n