 Among those appearing with him at the concert were two other leading Italian tenors of the day, Francesco Tamagno (the creator of the protagonist's role in Verdi's "Otello") and Giuseppe Borgatti (the creator of the protagonist's role in Giordano's "Andrea Chénier").He embarked on his last series of La Scala performances in March 1902, creating along the way the principal tenor part in "Germania" by Alberto Franchetti.A month later, on 11 April, he was engaged by the Gramophone Company to make his first group of acoustic recordings in a Milan hotel room for a fee of 100 pounds sterling.