Here is Loris Ricci, a barber, but also a great lover of bel canto. The singing barber recalls immediately the Barber of Seville and Ricci’s natural proclivity to singing seems to correspond to the character in Rossini’s opera.
He is 69 years old, but you could not guess it. He is a taller than average man, on the chubby side, but still handsome. He has a head full of white hair and a nicely trimmed thin moustache that seems to caress his upper lip and goes well together with his bushy eyebrows. He speaks easily and quickly. His voice is powerful and comes out of a wide chest. While sipping wine and gulping a prosciutto sandwich during our meeting he sings opera arias and tunes like ‘partirono le rondini’, ‘Caruso’ or ‘mamma’. He has an open, outgoing, solar personality and he loves speaking about himself and the world. ‘ In the course of many years I met all sorts of people from every social class.I had to learn out of necessity to be a psychologist and a philosopher.
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