Editing Mario Ancona (section)

==Repertoire==
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According to the critic Michael Scott, author of ''The Record of Singing'', Ancona's smooth, fluent and refined method of singing pre-dated the verismo movement. His style and technique were particularly well suited to the operas of Verdi, and to the bel canto works composed by [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]] and [[Donizetti]] (such as ''[[I Puritani]]'', ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'' and ''[[La favorite]]''). Ancona's repertoire of Verdi parts included Germont, Di Luna, Rigoletto, Amonasro and Iago, as well as Don Carlos in ''[[Ernani]]''.

Ancona also undertook roles composed by Leoncavallo (Silvio and Tonio), [[Puccini]] (Lescaut and Marcello), [[Pietro Mascagni|Mascagni]] (Alfio and David in ''[[L'amico Fritz]]''), [[Umberto Giordano|Giordano]] (Gerard in ''[[Andrea Chénier]]''), [[Mozart]] (Don Giovanni and Figaro) and [[Wagner]] (Wolfram, Telramund and even, on occasion, Hans Sachs). He appeared, too, in French operas written by [[Meyerbeer]], [[Gounod]], [[Bizet]] and, as we have seen, Massenet, performing such parts as Nevers, Hoël, Scindia, Escamillo, Zurga and Valentin.