Born to parents of Italian descent, he studied at the
Royal Conservatory of Liège in
Liège and under
Manuel García in Paris. He made his professional opera debut at the
Teatro Nuovo in
Naples in 1850 where he sang for two seasons. He sang at the
Teatro Canobbiano in Milan in 1852 and in 1853 he made his first appearance at
La Scala as Francesco in
Verdi's
I masnadieri. From 1853 to 1854 he was engaged at the
Teatro Regio di Torino. In 1855 Everardi returned to Paris to join the roster of principal singers at the
Théâtre-Italien. He sang there for two seasons in such roles as Aliprando in Rossini's
Matilde di Shabran and the title role in
Mozart's
Don Giovanni. In 1860 he was engaged at the
Royal Opera, London where he portrayed Comte de Nevers in
Meyerbeer's
Les Huguenots, Elmiro in Rossini's
Otello, Alphonse in
Donizetti's
La favorite, and Count Robinson in
Cimarosa's
Il matrimonio segreto. He also made several appearances at opera houses in Germany. Beginning in 1853, Everardi made several lauded opera appearances in Russian opera houses. He eventually moved to Saint Petersburg during the late 1850s where he appeared at the
Mariinsky Imperial Theatre until 1873, when he retired from the stage. He remained in Saint Petersburg working as a voice teacher for a few years, his students including the composer
Arkady Abaza, before taking a position at the
Kiev Conservatory. He eventually left Kiev to teach at the
Moscow Conservatory where he remained until his death in 1899. A large number of his pupils went on to have major careers, including
Nikolay Figner,
Maria Slavina,
Nikolay Speransky,
Fyodor Stravinsky,
Joachim Tartakov, and
Dmitri Usatov. ==Sources==