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This article contends that ventriloquism provides a powerful model for radio’s particular brand of acousmatic sound. In Italy, where early radio was devoted primarily to the dissemination of Italian identity through broadcasting Italian opera, the possibility of re-animating voices from the past was central to the medium’s political and cultural promise. Opera broadcasts therefore became stages for thinking through and exploiting the medium’s potential to transport and transplant the voice between bodies, not all of them human. In particular, the article examines broadcasts of Giacomo Puccini’s  Gianni Schicchi , one of the most-transmitted operas during the first two decades of Italian radio, which thematized the primary issue at the heart of the medium: its ability (or inability) to transport the human voice from one place to another in the ultimate act of ventriloquism.

‘Lanciando la voce’: Gianni Schicchi , ventriloquism, and Italian radio, 1925–1940