Alessandro Bonci |

ʻO Alessandro Bonci

I ka makahiki 1896 ua puka 'o ia mai ka Musical Lyceum ma Pesaro, kahi i a'o ai me C. Pedrotti a me F. Cohen. Ma hope mai ua aʻo ʻo ia ma ka Conservatory Paris. I ka makahiki 1896, ua hana ʻo ia i kāna hana mua me ka lanakila nui ma ka Teatro Regio ma Parma (Fenton – Verdi's Falstaff). Mai ia makahiki hoʻokahi, hoʻokani ʻo Bonci i nā hale opera alakaʻi ma Italia, me La Scala (Milan), a laila ma waho. Ua mākaʻikaʻi ʻo ia i Rūsia, ʻAsuria, Pelekane Nui, Kelemānia, Sepania, ʻAmelika Hema, Australia, USA (he mea hoʻokani solo me ka Manhattan Opera a me ka Metropolitan Opera ma New York). I ka makahiki 1927 ua haʻalele ʻo ia i ke kahua a ua komo ʻo ia i nā hana aʻo.

He mākaʻikaʻi koʻikoʻi ʻo Bonci no ke kiʻi o bel canto. Ua ʻike ʻia kona leo e ka plasticity, softness, transparency, tenderness of sound. Ma waena o nā hana maikaʻi loa: Arthur, Elvino ("Puritanes", "La sonnambula" na Bellini), Nemorino, Fernando, Ernesto, Edgar ("Love Potion", "Favorite", "Don Pasquale", "Lucia di Lammermoor" na Donizetti ). Ma waena o nā kiʻi papa mele ʻē aʻe: Don Ottavio (“Don Giovanni”), Almaviva (“The Barber of Seville”), Duke, Alfred (“Rigoletto”, “La Traviata”), Faust. Ua kaulana ʻo ia ma ke ʻano he mele ʻaha mele (i komo i ka hana ʻo Verdi's Requiem a me nā mea ʻē aʻe).