Mario of the Monaco nacque the 27 July of 1915 to Florence, from Neapolitan father and mother fiorentina. After to have passed infancy and it leave of the fanciullezza to Cremona, in 1924 he it had to trasferirsi in Libia, where the father, state civil employee, had been sended from the Government. This risen of exile lasted four years, to the term of which the family was settled down to Pesaro, above all for the insistence of the father who, lover of the lyric one, had thought next to the native city of the great Rossini, whose directed Musical Conservatory from Peter Mascagni, godeva of great reputation.
To the age of thirteen years the young person of the Monaco begins to study not the song but the violino, but, in he desire burned to sing, and often in house it attempted in airs from baritone, since a wide voice had been developed powerful and, if also a short Pò, but already were predestined to become tenor. A young person of the Monaco fascinated from with of musicians, pianisti and composers, enters to make part of that ambiete, and was therefore that Master Raffaelli knew, than began it to the art of the song. In he ne it discovers the already promising vocal and interpretative qualities, and it prepared it to face the public with a work nearly sconoscita of Massenet, the Narcisio. In the artistic fervor of Pesaro, the musical maturation of Mario of the Monaco progressed in unstoppable way much to induce the critic of the " Adriatic Courier " of Ancona to sbilanciarsi therefore in 1939: " quattordicenne the Mario of the Monaco, being worth student of Master Raffaelli has revealed a tenor from the voice robustissima, one true promise. In " Serenata of the convolvoli " of Master Raffaelli, in the " Prayer of the pure children of Italy " of Raffaelli and in other romanze, that she has had to bissare, Mario of the Monaco has asserted its authentic qualities: it, as today he introduces himself, constitutes a phenomenon that to competent judgment, in tomorrow not far away, will bloom in an artist from the powerful voice. " The article in issue reported of the debut of the young tenor happened in the theatre of one small marchigiana citizen, Mondolfo Marotta, and can be considered the first action of one shocking career. After this positive debut, Mario of the Monaco passó under the cures of Master Melocchi, which ne rifinì the vocal dowries a lot that, in 1936, it gained one scholarship near the Real Theatre of the Work of Rome, interpreting " Unexpected " exploding of Andrea Chènier. Master Melocchi

On 180 contenders, ne five to equal merit come chosen, between these, Rina Philippine, than for he it will become very more than a colleague, in fact fidanzarono and after five years, in I reach of 1941 were married.

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The successive period saw peró the young tenor to enter in a deep crisis due to the bad one uses of its voice, and Rina the consiglia:"torna from your master Melocchi, before that it is too much late ". Therefore he was, but the Master did not want ascoltarlo, says. " I had perceived to you that they would have ruined to you, yours it is an exceptional voice and such he had to be dealt. With the continuous insistence of Rina the Master accepted to resume its old student and in six months, Mario finds again in part the true road. In the 1939 Mario of the Monaco, before the call to the crews, debuttò in Rusticana Cavalry in the Communal Theatre of Rennets, party, for its fortune assigned it to the motor-vehicle depot to Milan, the commander was colonel Gino Ninchi, brother of two great actors. It loved the theatre, the art, music and began to having interest for that young person that felt to sing. The Body of the motor-vehicle depot leaves for Albania and Russia and of the Monaco asks the colonel for being aggregate to its company. " not to force the destiny - the colonel answered - if they will call to you you will leave also you; of the rest a six patrimony of our Country and you will serve very to your Native land with your only voice, for rappresentarla in the world ". To Milan its career the just fold taken poichè the impresario of the Puccini Theatre, struck by lightning from its voice in the course of a audition procuratagli from that it had to become the woman of its life, Rina Philippine, decided of scritturarlo for four recite of Madama Butterfly (1941) In the meantime was peró burst the war and naturally the artistic activity could not that risentirne and with it the activity of of the Monaco, than resumptions at full speed only in 1946 allorchè he esordì with large succeeding to the Arena of Verona after to have declined I invite it rivoltogli from the Scale, for the Traviata. Many were the important stages of its career, but a place to part deserves the scaligera edition of Andrea Chenièr, of 1949, prepared for the commemoration of the dead women of the great Umberto Giordano and directed from Victor De Sabata, Of the Monaco is the prechosen one, the same Giordano, in 1946 had prepared it for the debut, annotandogli on shared the all the modifications that the occasion had to it consigliato.Per, and given the great wait for the event, the determined direction of the Scale of diffonderlo integrally
in the before public square for means of microphones. The test offered from Mario of the Monaco was such that, in order very 28 years, the part in issue ne divenne an exclusive appanage. It returns to the Scale in 1950 for Aida with Maria Callas, but this is the historical year for the young tenor, than already it thought next to the Otello. In the same year, to the Saint Carl of Naples, during the recite ones of Bohème, that it interprets for the commemoration of Puccini, it receives the demand from Buenos Aires, where the previous year had sung Turandot, the Force of Destino, the Trovatore, for Tosca, the Traviata and Otello. The happened one is trionfale. The critic writes: " the Otello of Of the Monaco will remain in the book of gold of the history of the Theatre Colon ". *** TRANSLATION ENDS HERE ***