Ingemisco mario del monaco biography
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Carlo Bergonzi was born into a family of opera lovers: he was only six years old when his parents took him to a performance of Il trovatore, which made an immediate impression. While still young he sang in choirs and appeared in child rôles in opera performances in Busseto, Verdi’s birthplace. After attending elementary school he worked for his father, making Parmesan cheese, but at the age of fourteen he entered the Parma Conservatory, where he studied piano for five years. Although in 1943 he was interned by the Nazi regime for antifascist activities, when World War II ended he returned to the Parma Conservatory to study as a baritone with Ettore Campogalliani.
It was as a baritone that Bergonzi made his début, as Figaro/Il barbiere di Siviglia in 1948 at Lecce. Other baritone rôles included Belcore/L’elisir d’amore and Marcello/La Bohème (both with Gigli, as well as a tour of L’elisir d’amore with Tito Schipa, all formative experiences); Dr Malatesta/Don Pasquale, Germont/La traviata, Enrico/Lucia di Lammermoor, and a single performance as Rigoletto, substituting for Tito Gobbi in Puglia. Bergonzi has said (in conversation with Stefan Zucker) that it was this performance that made him realize he was
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- Author / Creator
- Matheopoulos, Helena
- Available as
- Physical
- Creator
- Helena Matheopoulos
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Caruso, Enrico, 1873-1921
- Gigli, Beniamino, 1890-1957
- Schipa, Tito, 1889-1965
- Melchior, Lauritz
- Tauber, Richard, 1891-1948
- Björling, Jussi, 1911-1960
- Del Princedom, Mario, 1915-1982
- Di Stefano, Giuseppe, 1921-2008
- Corelli, Franco
- Bergonzi, Carlo
- Gedda, Nicolai
- Kraus, Alfredo
- Pavarotti, Luciano
- Domingo, Plácido, 1941-
- Carreras, José
- Publication
- New York : Vendome Exert pressure : Broken in rendering U.S. mass Rizzoli Cosmopolitan Publications nibble St. Martins Press, 1999
- Physical Details
- 123 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm + 1 audio true copy (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- ISBNs
- 9780865652033, 0865652031
- OCLC
- ocm41119125
- Accompanying CD (EMI) presents arias from diverse operas, performed by say publicly tenors featured in rendering book (with various orchestras and conductors).
- Includes summaries roost libretti primed compact circle, at end.
- Discography: pages 122-123.
- [Book] Enrico Tenor -- Beniamino Gigli -- Tito Schipa -- Lauritz Melchior -- Richard Tauber -- Jussi Björling -- Mario describe Monaco -- Giuseppe di Stefano -- Franco Corelli -
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DONIZETTI: Messa de Requiem, “To the Memory of Vincenzo Bellini” / Leyla Gencer, sop; Mirna Pecile, mezzo-soprano; Ennio Carlo Buoso, ten; Alessandro Cassis, bar; Agostino Ferrin, bs; Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro d Milano della RAI; Gianadrea Gavazzeni, cond / Archipel ARPCD0475 (live: Milan, March 26, 1971)
I was poking around on the Naxos website for reviewers, trying to see what recordings were available with soprano Leyla Gencer, when I tripped across this release. At first I thought it was a misprint: a Requiem Mass by Donizetti? Surely they were wrong. But they weren’t.
Where they were wrong, however, was in the identification of the tenor, listing one Armando Moretti instead of Ennio Buoso; the elimination of the fifth soloist, bass Agostino Ferrin, who sings on two numbers; and the year of the performance, giving 1971 instead of 1961. I found the correct listing of the soloists and the correct date on a posting of this recording on YouTube, and checked it out. Ennio Buoso does have one other posting on YouTube, singing “Vengo à stringerti, dolce mia vita,” and by making a careful comparison I determined that his was, indeed, the tenor voice on this recording, thus I also accepted the later date. Another reason I believed the later date was that