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Décès de Salvatore Licitra

5 Septembre 2011, 20:52pm

Publié par Berty

Salvatore Licitra est décédé aujourd’hui à l’hôpital Garibaldi de Catane. Les médecins ont constaté l’arrêt des fonctions cérébrales à 9h ce matin. Il était dans le coma depuis son accident de scooter, samedi 27 août à 22h30 à Donnalucata, près de Raguse en Sicile.

Conformément aux souhaits du ténor, sa mère a autorisé le prélèvement de ses organes : «Mio figlio ha avuto il dono del belcanto che lo ha fatto grande in tutto il mondo. Chi lo ha conosciuto sa bene quanto generoso sia stato sempre. Questo atto adesso lo rende testimone straordinario della sua umanità, che mette a disposizione di chi soffre».
Il devait chanter “Ernani“ ce mois-ci à Tokyo, “Turandot“ à Londres et “Aïda à Taipei en octobre, “Norma“ à Salerne en novembre et décembre, “Aîda“ à Chicago en janvier et mars, “Ernani“ encore au Met à New-York en février…

L’annonce sur son site officiel :

Salvatore Licitra has died

Dear friends of Salvatore Licitra,
Here is to announce with great sadness that the wonderful Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra, 43, died today, September 5, 2011 of his severe injuries at Garibaldi Hospital in Catania, Italy.
He suffered head and chest injuries during an accident while riding a scooter on August 27, 2011 in the city of Modica near Ragusa. He was flown to the hospital in Catania where he had surgery. He was in a coma from the time the accident happened. He passed away this morning leaving behind his beloved parents, his brother and many other family members.
The hospital will hold a press conference on September 6, 2011 at 10:30 am at the Sala Dusmet at the hospital.
Salvatore Licitra was one of the leading tenors in the dramatic Italian repertoire where he showed his ‘worthiness of the great Italian tradition’ (The New York Times). A frequent guest at major opera and concert stages in Europe, the United States and the Far East, his repertory included Verdi’s Aida, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Forza del destino, Ernani, Macbeth, Don Carlos andIl Trovatore as well as Puccini’s Turandot, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La fanciulla del West andIl Tabarro, Bellini’sNorma, Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur, Giordano’s Andrea Chenier, Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci and Mascagni’sCavalleria Rusticana.
Salvatore Licitra was born in Bern, Switzerland, to Italian parents and studied in Parma where in 1998 he made his debut at the Teatro Regio inUn Ballo in Maschera. He garnered international attention later that year when he unexpectedly inaugurated the 1998 Arena di Verona, again in Ballo. The following year Maestro Riccardo Muti brought him to La Scala for a new production of La Forza del Destino. In May 2002 Mr. Licitra had his international break through when he stepped in on short notice for Luciano Pavarotti at the Metropolitan Opera in Tosca and had an overwhelming success.
His engagements have taken him to the Vienna State Opera, Opernhaus Zurich, Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper Berlin, Teatro alla Scala, Arena di Verona, London’s Royal Opera, Paris Opera Bastille, Tokyo, Taiwan, China, the opera companies of Rome, Naples, Florence, Parma, Palermo, Oslo, Lisbon as well as to the New York Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, San Francisco and Los Angeles Opera.

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