Ettore Bastianini |
Ettore Bastianini
Hānau ʻia ma Siena, aʻo pū me Gaetano Vanni. Ua hoʻomaka ʻo ia i kāna ʻoihana mele ma ke ʻano he bass, e hana ana i kāna hana mua ma 1945 ma Ravenna ʻo Collin (Puccini's La bohème). No nā makahiki ʻeono, hana ʻo ia i nā ʻāpana bass: Don Basilio ma Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Sparafucile ma Verdi's Rigoletto, Timur ma Puccini's Turandot a me nā mea ʻē aʻe. Mai ka makahiki 1948 ua hoʻokani ʻo ia ma La Scala.
I ka makahiki 1952, ua hana ʻo Bastianini no ka manawa mua ma ke ʻano he baritone ma ka ʻāpana o Germont (Bologna). Mai ka makahiki 1952, ho'okani pinepine 'o ia ma ka Florentine Musical May Festival ma ke kuleana o ka Russian repertoire (Tomsky, Yeletsky, Mazepa, Andrey Bolkonsky). I ka makahiki 1953, ua ho'omaka 'o ia ma ka Metropolitan Opera 'o Germont. Ua hana ʻo ia ma La Scala (1954) i ka ʻāpana o Eugene Onegin, i ka makahiki 1958 ua hana ʻo ia me Callas ma Bellini's The Pirate. Mai ka makahiki 1962, hīmeni ʻo ia ma Covent Garden, hīmeni pū ʻo ia ma ka Salzburg Festival, ma Arena di Verona.
Ua kapa ka poʻe hoʻohewa i ka leo o ka mea mele he "ahi", "ka leo o ke keleawe a me ka velvet" - he baritone māmā, momona, sonorous ma ka papa inoa o luna, mānoanoa a waiwai i nā kī.
He mea hoʻokani maikaʻi ʻo Bastianini i nā hana koʻikoʻi a Verdi – Count di Luna (“Il Trovatore”), Renato (“Un ballo in maschera”, Don Carlos (“Force of Destiny”), Rodrigo (“Don Carlos”). ʻO ka lanakila like ma ka opera e nā haku mele -verists. Aia ma waena o nā pāʻina ʻo Figaro, Barenaba ma Ponchielli's Gioconda, Gerard ma Giordano's Andre Chenier, Escamillo a me nā mea ʻē aʻe i hana ʻia e Bastianini, ʻo ia ka ʻāpana o Rodrigo ma ke kahua o ka Metropolitan Opera.
ʻO Ettore Bastianini kekahi o nā mea mele koʻikoʻi o ka waena o ke kenekulia XNUMX. ʻO Figaro (ke alakaʻi ʻo Erede, Decca), Rodrigo (ke alakaʻi ʻo Karajan, Deutsche Grammophon), ʻo Gerard (ka mea hoʻokele Gavazzeni, Decca).
