also especially praised for his portrayal of Mefistofele in both Gounod's and Boito's operas, and Rossini's Don Basilio. He made many memorable recordings of operatic arias which are available on CD transfers. Selected repertoire Méphistophélès in Faust by Gounod Boris in Boris Godunov by Mussorgskij Marcel in Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer Ramfis in Aida by Verdi Colline in La Bohème by Puccini Mefistofele in Mefistofele by Boito Coppélius in Les Contes d’Hoffmann by Offenbach Sparafucile in Rigoletto by Verdi Galitskij in Prins Igor by Borodin Leporello in Don Giovanni by Mozart Archibaldo in L’Amore dei tre re by Montemezzi Filippo II in Don Carlo by Verdi Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart Tomskij in Spardame [The Queen of Spades] by Tchaikovsky Kezal in Svatební košile [The Bartered Bride] by Dvořák Tonio in I pagliacci by Leoncavallo Klingsor in Parsifal by Wagner Oberthal in Le prophète by Meyerbeer Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte by Mozart Mustafà in L’Italiana in Algeri by Rossini Alvise Badoero in La Gioconda by Ponchielli Scarpia in Tosca by Puccini Billy Jackrabbit in La Fanciulla del West by Puccini Talpa in Il Tabarro by Puccini Simone in Gianni Schicchi by Puccini Trehogger in Königskinder by Humperdinck Il Cieco in Iris by Mascagni Franz in Lodoletta by Mascagni Gremin in Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky Pistol in Falstaff by Verdi Giovanni Filippo Palm in Germania by Franchetti Hu-Tsin in L’Oracolo by Leoni Discography Didur recorded for G & T, Fonotipia, Pathé and Brunswick labels. Selections from his recorded arias and songs were reissued on compact discs: Lebendige Vergangenheit, Preiser (89198) Club "99" (CD 99-89) Hafg (Hamburger Archiv für Gesangskunst ) Vol. 1, 1904-16 (10073) Hafg (Hamburger Archiv für Gesangskunst ) Vol. 2, 1900-03 (10074) References Further reading L. de Noskowski: ‘Adamo Didur’, The Record Collector, Vol 16 (1964), pg. 4–23. Michael Scott, The Record of Singing. Vol 1: To 1914. Duckworth: London, 1979, pg. 120-1. Karl-Josef Kutsch and Leo Riemens, Großes Sängerlexikon, Vol. 4. Munich: K. G. Saur, 2003, pg. 1163-4. David Ewen, Encyclopedia of the Opera: New Enlarged Edition. New York; Hill and Wang, 1963. Harold Rosenthal and John Warrack (editors), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (second edition). London; Oxford University Press, 1980. External links Biography of Adam Didur at Opera Vivrà 1874 births 1946 deaths