Andrés Perelló de Segurola (27 March 1874 – 23 January 1953) was a Spanish operatic
bass.
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Biography
He was born on 27 March 1874 in Valencia, Spain
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area also ...
.
He was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company
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between 1901 and 1920 and later appeared in many films. He appeared as himself in the 1928 romantic comedy film ''The Cardboard Lover
''The Cardboard Lover'' is a 1928 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Marion Davies, Nils Asther and Jetta Goudal. It was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
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''.
Towards the end of his career at the Metropolitan Opera, De Segurola also became an impresario
An impresario (from the Italian ''impresa'', "an enterprise or undertaking") is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas, performing a role in stage arts that is similar to that of a film or television producer.
Hist ...
. In 1916, he presented a four-week opera season at the Grand National Theatre in Havana
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Alice Geraldine Farrar (February 28, 1882 – March 11, 1967) was an American lyric soprano who could also sing dramatic roles. She was noted for her beauty, acting ability, and "the intimate timbre of her voice." She had a large following a ...
and Pasquale Amato
Pasquale Amato (21 March 1878 – 12 August 1942) was an Italian operatic baritone. Amato enjoyed an international reputation but attained the peak of his fame in New York City, where he sang with the Metropolitan Opera from 1908 until 1921.
E ...
.
After his retirement from the stage, he taught singing. Amongst his many pupils was Deanna Durbin
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.
He married Mrs. John Bidlake in 1936.Barcelona, Spain
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.
Roles created
*Jake Wallace in ''La fanciulla del West
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'' (Giacomo Puccini
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), Metropolitan Opera, 10 December 1910
*Didier in '' Madeleine'' (Victor Herbert
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), Metropolitan Opera, 24 January 1914
*Fouché in '' Madame Sans-Gêne'' (Umberto Giordano
Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (28 August 186712 November 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.
He was born in Foggia in Apulia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples. His first opera, ''Marina ...
), Metropolitan Opera, 25 January 1915
*Ser Amantio di Nicolao in ''Gianni Schicchi
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'' (Giacomo Puccini), Metropolitan Opera, 14 December 1918
Partial filmography
* '' The Flaming Omen'' (1917)
* ''The Love of Sunya
''The Love of Sunya'' (also known as ''The Loves of Sunya'') is an American silent drama film made in 1927. It was directed by Albert Parker, and was based on the play ''The Eyes of Youth'' by Max Marcin and Charles Guernon. Produced by and st ...
'' (1927)
* ''Bringing Up Father
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The strip was later titled ''Jiggs and Maggie'' (or ''M ...
'' (1928)
* ''Glorious Betsy
''Glorious Betsy'' is a 1928 silent film with talking sequences. It is based on the 1908 play of the same name by Rida Johnson Young, and it stars Dolores Costello. It was produced by Warner Bros. and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Wr ...
'' (1928)
* ''The Cardboard Lover
''The Cardboard Lover'' is a 1928 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Marion Davies, Nils Asther and Jetta Goudal. It was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
...
'' (1928)
* ''The Red Dance
''The Red Dance'' (also known as ''The Red Dancer of Moscow'') is a 1928 American film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Dolores del Río and Charles Farrell that was inspired in the novel by Henry Leyford Gates. Although silent, it was rel ...
'' (1928)
* '' My Man'' (1928)
* ''The Diplomats
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'' (1929 short)
* ''General Crack
''General Crack'' is a 1929 American pre-Code part-talkie historical costume melodrama with Technicolor sequences which was directed by Alan Crosland and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It was filmed and premiered in 1929, and release ...
'' (1929)
* ''Mamba
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'' (1930)
* '' La Voluntad del muerto'' (1930)
* '' We're Rich Again'' (1934)
* ''One Night of Love
''One Night of Love'' is a 1934 American Columbia Pictures romantic musical film set in the opera world, starring Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati. The film was directed by Victor Schertzinger and adapted from the story ''Don't Fall in Love'', by ...
'' (1934)
* ''Public Opinion
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'' (1935)
* ''Castillos en el aire
''Castillos en el aire'' (English: ''Castles in the Air'') is a 1938 American Spanish-language comedy-drama film. Directed by Jaime Salvador, the film stars Cristina Téllez, Rafael Alcaide, and Pilar Arcos. It was released on April 6, 1938.
Plo ...
'' (1938)
References
Further reading
*Mengíbar, Andrés Moreno
"El mundo de la ópera a través de un monóculo: Andrés Perelló de Segurola"
''Melómano'', Orfeo Ediciones, S.L. Accessed 31 October 2009 (in Spanish).
*Metropolitan Opera
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De Segurola, Andrés (Bass)
performance record on the MetOpera Database. Accessed 31 October 2009.
*Sauners, Richard Drake (ed.)
''Music and Dance in California and the West''
Read Books, 1940.
*''Time
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''
"A Night at the Opera"
October 3, 1949. Accessed 31 October 2009.
*''Through My Monocle: Memoirs of the great basso Andreas de Segurola'', edited by George R Creegan, Steubenville, Ohio: Crest Publishing Co., 1991.
External links
*
Audio files
on the Internet Archive
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20th-century Spanish male opera singers
Operatic basses
1874 births
1953 deaths
Singers from the Valencian Community
People from Valencia
Voice teachers
Spanish male film actors
Actors from the Valencian Community
20th-century Spanish male actors
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