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Lorenzo Molajoli
Lorenzo Molajoli (1868 - 4 April 1939) was an Italian opera conductor who was active in recording during the 1920s and 1930s. The facts surrounding Molajoli's career are obscure. He was born in Rome in 1868 and studied there at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. His career began in 1891, and it would appear that much of his career prior to the First World War was spent in both North and South America, South Africa and various provincial Italian opera houses. Claims have been made that Molajoli conducted at La Scala in the inter-war years, but there is no published documentation to substantiate this assumption. What can be established is that he served with considerable distinction as the house conductor in Milan for Columbia Records, recording complete operas and accompanying a large number of singers, in addition to making recordings of a number of operatic overtures. Molajoli conducted twenty complete or abridged operas for Columbia between 1928 and 1932, including the first compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librettist and incorporates a number of the performing arts, such as acting, scenery, costume, and sometimes dance or ballet. The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble, which since the early 19th century has been led by a conductor. Although musical theatre is closely related to opera, the two are considered to be distinct from one another. Opera is a key part of the Western classical music tradition. Originally understood as an entirely sung piece, in contrast to a play with songs, opera has come to include numerous genres, including some that include spoken dialogue such as '' Singspiel'' and '' Opéra comique''. In traditional number opera, singers employ two styles of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino Borgioli
Dino Borgioli (15 February 189112 September 1960) was an Italian lyric tenor. Praised by critics for his musicianship, he was particularly associated with roles in operas composed by Mozart, Rossini, and Donizetti. Life and career Dino Borgioli was born and died in Florence, where he studied with Eugenio Giachetti. He made his operatic debut in 1914, as Arturo in ''I puritani'', at the Teatro Corso in Milan. He then sang the role of Fernand in ''La favorite'' at the Teatro Dal Verme, before making his La Scala debut in 1918 as Ernesto in ''Don Pasquale''. In 1924, he was the lead tenor in the Melba-Williamson Grand Opera tour of Australia, opening the Sydney season opposite Nellie Melba in ''La bohème''. On the international scene, Borgioli debuted at the Royal Opera House in London, as Edgardo in ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', opposite Toti Dal Monte in 1925—and at the Glyndebourne Festival where he sang as Ottavio in'' Don Giovanni'', and as Ernesto. He also appeared in P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Bruna Rasa
Lina Bruna Rasa (24 September 1907 – 20 September 1984) was an Italian operatic soprano. She was particularly noted for her performances in the verismo repertoire and was a favourite of Pietro Mascagni who considered her the ideal Santuzza. Bruna Rasa created the roles of Atte in Mascagni's '' Nerone'', Cecilia Sagredo in Franco Vittadini's ''La Sagredo'' and Saint Clare in Licinio Refice's 1926 oratorio, ''Trittico Francescano''. She also sang the role of Tsaritsa Militrisa in the Italian premiere of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan''. Biography Lina Bruna Rasa was born at Padua and began her music studies at age 14, studying with Guido Palumbo and Italiano Tabarin in her native Padua, and later in Milan with Manlio Bavagnoli. Her appearance in a 1925 concert at the Teatro La Fenice singing the "Suicidio" aria from '' La Gioconda'' created a sensation. By the end of that year, at the age of 18 she made her operatic debut singing the role of Elena in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Merli
Francesco Merli (28 January 188711 December 1976) was an Italian opera singer, particularly associated with heavy roles such as Otello, Canio and Calaf. He ranks as one of the finest dramatic tenors of the inter-war period. Life and career Francesco Merli was born Francesco Cova in Corsico (Milan), son of Luigi and Emilia Cova. and studied in Milan, with Carlo Negrini and Adelaide Borghi. In 1914, he won second prize at a singing competition in Parma, being edged out of first place by the great Beniamino Gigli. He made his debut at La Scala, Milan, in 1916, as Alvaro in Spontini's ''Fernand Cortez''. Merli would sing widely in Italy and South America during the next decade, and also toured Australia in 1928 with an opera company composed of leading La Scala singers and sponsored by Dame Nellie Melba (who also sang during that tour, in roles such as Mimi in ''La bohème'', despite being 67 years old). The tour included Merli singing Calaf in the Australian premiere of Puccini's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iva Pacetti
Iva Pacetti (13 December 1898, Prato - 19 January 1981, Milan) was an Italian operatic dramatic soprano who had an active international career from 1920 to 1947. Trained in Florence and Milan, she made her professional opera debut in her native city at the age of 21 as the title heroine in Giuseppe Verdi's ''Aida'' at the Teatro Metastasio. She reprised the role the following year at Loew's Lexington Theatre in New York City. In 1922 she had a triumphant success at the Teatro Carlo Felice as Elena in Arrigo Boito's ''Mefistofele''. Engagements with other important opera houses soon followed, including La Scala, the Teatro Costanzi, the Teatro di San Carlo, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the Chicago Civic Opera, the Teatro Colón, the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, and the Theatro Municipal in São Paulo. From 1930 to 1933 she was committed to the Royal Opera House in London, portraying such roles as Desdemona in '' Otello'', Leonora in '' La forza del destino'', and the title ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Zamboni
Maria Zamboni (25 July 1895 – 25 March 1976) was an Italian operatic soprano who had a prolific career in Italy and South America between 1921 and 1936. Admired for her vivid character portrayals and expressive singing, Zamboni was a popular and frequent performer at both La Scala and the Teatro Costanzi. Her repertoire encompassed a broad spectrum, from Verdi and Wagner heroines to French grand opera and verismo roles. She became particularly associated with the works of Giacomo Puccini and notably sang the role of Liù in the original 1926 production of '' Turandot''.J.B. Steane, "Maria Zamboni", ''Grove Music Online'' ed. L. Macy (Accessed November 16, 2008)(subscription access)/ref> Biography Zamboni was born at Peschiera del Garda. She studied at the Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito in Parma under M. Silva before making her professional opera debut in 1921 at Piacenza as Marguerite in Gounod's '' Faust''. Over the next few years she appeared at numerous major opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Galeffi
Carlo Galeffi (4 June 1884 – 22 September 1961) was a leading Italian baritone, particularly associated with the operatic works of Giuseppe Verdi and the various verismo composers. Life and career Galeffi was born in Malamocco, the only settlement on the Lido of Venice. As a youth, he studied with Di Como and Enrico Sbriscia; later he followed a finishing course with Antonio Cotogni. According to ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera'', he made his professional debut in 1904, aged 21, at Rome's Teatro Adriano, as Enrico in ''Lucia di Lammermoor''. Galeffi sang throughout Italy before reaching Italy's premier opera house, La Scala, Milan, in 1912. He would remain at La Scala until 1938, becoming a favorite of the conductor Arturo Toscanini. Galeffi made his American debut in Boston in 1910. He sang at the New York Metropolitan Opera only once, on November 29 of that same year, as Verdi's Germont père in '' La Traviata''. Galeffi sang, too, at the Lyric Opera of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionello Cecil
Lionello Cecil (20 September 1893 – 13 November 1957) was an Australian operatic tenor. Much of his training and early career took place in Italy. Early life and career Lionello Cecil was born in Waverley, in Sydney, as Lionel Cecil Sherwood. The son of a senior police sergeant, his first music teacher was Hector Fleming, and Cecil gave his first performance on 30 September 1912 at the age of 19. Cecil's second teacher was Andrew Black, who encouraged him to study abroad, so Lionello went to Italy in March 1914. Once there he was awarded a scholarship to the Verdi Regio Conservatorio in Milan, and began studying with Mario Pieraccini. In 1918 he made his debut as an opera singer, under the stage name of Lionello Cecil, performing in the Storchi Theatre of Modena as Duca di Mantova (Verdi's Rigoletto). After his great success, he made a lot of operatic debuts in the other Italian opera theatres and became a leading tenor of the Italian Provincial Houses. In London, while he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Capuana
Maria Capuana (2 September 1891 – 22 February 1955) was an Italian mezzo-soprano who had a major international opera career during the first half of the 20th century. She possessed a voice with a dark timbre that she used with great expression. Born in Fano in the Province of Pesaro and Urbino, Capuana was the older sister of conductor Franco Capuana. She was trained in the art of singing and piano performance at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in Naples where she was a pupil of Beniamino Carelli. She made her stage debut in 1916 at the opera house in Reggio Emilia as Amneris in Giuseppe Verdi's '' Aida''; a role which she would repeat at many major opera houses internationally later in her career and notably record for the opera's first commercial recording in 1928. Capuana soon began appearing in leading roles at major opera houses in both Italy and France and by 1920 she had already made appearances at La Scala in Milan, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aroldo Lindi
Aroldo Lindi, born Gustav Harald Lindau, (26 May 1888 – 8 March 1944) was a Swedish operatic tenor who enjoyed an international career, appearing at La Scala and at Covent Garden from 1925. In the United States, he appeared with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company and the Chicago Civic Opera. According to Robert Rushmore in his book ''The Singing Voice'', Lindi dropped dead onstage after completing the aria "Vesti la giubba" in Ruggero Leoncavallo's ''Pagliacci'' at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. According to the blog ''Forgotten Opera Singers'', his friend Coe Glade Coe Glade (August 12, 1900 – September 23, 1985) was an American opera singer. She was born in Chicago. She was a mezzo-soprano. She sang in the opening program at Radio City Music Hall in 1932 and at the Hiram Walker Canadian Club at the Ch ... witnessed his death and described it in an interview for the Vocal Record Collectors' Society in Chicago.Ashot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luba Mirella
Luba (or Ljuba) Mirella (''née'' Ljuba Wagenheim; 13 April 1894, Rostov – 4 March 1972, Milan) was an Italian coloratura soprano of Polish descent. Her name is sometimes given in cast lists as Mirella Luba and Mirella Lubov. Biography Luba Mirella was born in Rostov to a family of Polish musicians who emigrated to Italy during the First World War. She is believed to have made her debut in Russia and subsequently enjoyed a successful career in Italy, appearing widely in the province as well as at the principal opera houses. Her best role on stage was considered Musetta in Giacomo Puccini's ''La bohème'', and she sang this part with great success at the Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Comunale di Bologna and, notably, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1935. At La Scala Mirella also appeared in the 1940/1941 season in Richard Strauss's opera ''Die Frau ohne Schatten''. Outside Italy, she made appearances at the Teatro Liceo in Barcelona (in 1929, as Musetta, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
