Jaume Aragall i Garriga better known as Giacomo Aragall is a Spanish/Catalan tenor, born in Barcelona, Spain on 6 June 1939. After his initial studies in Barcelona under Jaime Francisco Puig, Giacomo Aragall travelled to Milan on a scholarship from the Liceu to study with Maestro Vladimir Badiali. He soon won the Voci Verdi competition in Busseto and, in the same year (1963), made his Italian stage debut at Teatro La Fenice in Verdi's Gerusalemme and his debut at La Scala in the title role of Mascagni's L'amico Fritz. He also sang Il Cavaliere in Paul Hindemith's Cardillac, in January 1964 and Rodolfo in La bohème. The following seasons saw him back at the Liceu with Rodolfo and, in quick succession, at opera houses in Budapest, Venice, Genoa, Palermo, Parma, Modena, Naples, Rome and Turin. In 1966 he sang Romeo in a memorable performance of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi at La Sc

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