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Italian opera singer
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- baritone
- Italy, Kingdom of Italy
- opera singer, teacher
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2017-01-24 15:58:25
Scritto in ciel
[…] offer superb performances, but sadly lacked the vocal resources to fulfill their commitments. (I attended their first USA concert in Philadelphia in 1974) While Callas soon gave up – on art, music, and life – Di Stefano struggled until 1992, making his farewell as Altoum in Turandot in 1992. After a series of health problems, he died in 2008 at age 86 in his home near Milano. Mascherini, a student of Titta Ruffo and Riccardo Stracciari, had a brief Met career consisting of five roles within six weeks between 1949 and 1950 with the company’ stars, but was mainly a highly-regarded La Scala regular for many seasons beginning in 1940. Siepi most notably made his Met debut at age 26 on Rudolph Bing’s first opening night in 1950 as Filippo II in Don Caro and sang nearly 500 performances there until his final Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia […]
2013-04-14 22:22:31
Salad Bowl Italian-Opera Style Continues with ‘La Traviata’
[…] the part of Giorgio Germont has traditionally remained the property of the baritone. A high-lying, lyrically expansive role, in the frame of Verdi’s other middle-period creations such as Rigoletto and the Count Di Luna from Il Trovatore, Germont has been coveted by singers for over a century and a half. Some of the finest interpreters in the business have undertaken this short but dramatically/vocally appealing character: from the Italians Mattia Battistini, Giuseppe De Luca, Riccardo Stracciari, Ettore Bastianini, Tito Gobbi, Rolando Panerai, Renato Bruson and Leo Nucci, to the Americans John Charles Thomas, Robert Weede, Richard Bonelli, Lawrence Tibbett, Leonard Warren, Robert Merrill, Sherrill Milnes, Cornell MacNeil and Thomas Hampson; along with the Germans Heinrich Schlusnuss, Josef Metternich and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Frenchmen Michel Dens, Robert Massard, Ernest Blanc and Ludovic Tézier, Russians Pavel Lisitsian, Vladimir Chernov and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Brazilians Paulo Fortes and Lourival Braga, among many, many others. […]
2012-12-09 01:45:00
I'm only about six weeks late in posting this: the record sources and playlist for my talk on Lauritz Melchior. They're after the jump. Recording Sources Lauritz Melchior (1890-1973) Der Ring des NibelungenHMV Potted RingPearl Gemm 9137 Melchior EditionDanacord Walter Widdop Der Ring des NibelungenHMV Potted RingPearl Gemm 9137 Georges Thill (1897-1984)Lebendige Vergangenheit Cesar Vezzani (1886-1951) Complete Records, Vol. 2Marston Records Paul Franz (1876-1950) Lebendige Vergangenheit Francisco VinasComplete RecordingsMarston Records Giuseppe Borgatti & Isadoro FagoagaLebendige Vergangenheit (same release, and it's Borgatti's name and photo on the cover) WagnerismoItalian singers in WagnerInternational Record Collectors' ClubSelections from Rienzi, Lohengrin, Tannhauser, Tristano e Isotta, Parsifal, Maestri Cantori di NorimbergaVignas, Melba, Caniglia, Ziliani, Pasero, Pasini-Vitale, Parsi-Pettinella, Canetti, Capelli, Fleta, Stracciari, Maroli, Amato, Casini, Borgatti, Ferrari-Fontana, Elmo, Corsi, “Edoardo di Giovanni” (Edward Johnson), Zenatello Wagner en FrancaisRomophoneExcerpts from the RingVezzani, Lubin, Verdiere, Lawrence, Franz, […]
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