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Nā haku o Bel Canto: Maria Barrientos
ʻO kekahi o nā sopranos kaulana loa o ka hapa mua o ke kenekulia 20, ʻo Maria Barrientos, i hoʻomaka mua ʻo ia ma ke kahua keaka. Ma hope o kekahi mau haʻawina leo mai Francisco Bonet ma kāna kamaʻāina ʻo Barcelona, ʻo Maria, i ka makahiki 14, ua ʻike mua ʻia ma ke kahua o ka Teatro Lirico e like me Ines ma Meyerbeer's Africana. Mai ka makahiki aʻe, hoʻomaka ka mea mele i ka huakaʻi ma Italia, Farani, Kelemānia, a me nā ʻāina ʻo ʻAmelika Hema. No laila, i ka makahiki 1899, ua ho'okani 'o ia me ka lanakila nui ma Milana i ke kuleana o Lakme ma ka opera o ka inoa like e Delibes. I ka makahiki 1903, ua hoʻomaka ka mea mele ʻōpio Sepania i kāna hana mua ma Covent Garden (Rosina ma Rossini's The Barber of Seville), i ka manawa aʻe e hāʻawi aku ʻo La Scala iā ia (Dinora ma Meyerbeer's opera o ka inoa like, Rosina).
ʻO ke kiʻekiʻe o ka hana a Maria Barrientos i hele mai i nā hana ma New York Metropolitan Opera. I ka makahiki 1916, me ka lanakila nui, ua hoʻomaka ka mea mele iā ia ma ke ʻano he Lucia ma Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor a lilo ʻo ia i kiʻi o ka lehulehu, e hana ana i nā ʻāpana alakaʻi o ka coloratura soprano i nā kau ʻehā e hiki mai ana. Ma waena o nā hana ma ke kahua o ka hale kiʻiʻoniʻoni alakaʻi o ʻAmelika, ʻike mākou iā Adina ma Donizetti's Love Potion, kahi o ka hoa mele ʻo Caruso nui, ka Mōʻīwahine o Shemakhan ma Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel. Aia pū ka papa mele a ka mea mele i nā kuleana o Amina ma Bellini's La Sonnambula, Gilda, Violetta, Mireille i ka opera a Gounod o ka inoa like a me nā mea ʻē aʻe. I nā makahiki 20, ua hoʻokani ʻo Barrientos ma Farani, ma Monte Carlo, kahi i mele ai i ka makahiki 1929 i ke poʻo inoa ma ka Stravinsky's The Nightingale.
Ua kaulana nō hoʻi ʻo Maria Barrientos ma ke ʻano he unuhi maʻalahi o nā hana keʻena e nā mea haku mele Farani a me Sepania. Ua hana ʻo ia i kekahi mau leo hoʻopaʻa leo maikaʻi loa no Fonotopia a me Kolombia, a ma waena o ia ka hoʻopaʻa ʻana o ka pōʻai leo leo a Manuel de Falla "Seven Spanish Folk Songs" me ka mea kākau ma ka piano. ʻO nā makahiki hope loa o kona ola, ua aʻo ka mea mele ma Buenos Aires.
Hoʻohanohano ʻia ka hīmeni ʻana o Maria Barrientos e kahi filigree, ʻano mea kani maoli me kahi legato nani, ʻoiai ma hope o hoʻokahi kenekulia, he mea kupaianaha. E leʻaleʻa kākou i ka leo o kekahi o nā mea hīmeni maikaʻi loa a nani o ka hapa mua o ke kenekulia 20!
ʻO ka discography i koho ʻia o Maria Barrientos:
- Recital (Bellini, Mozart, Delibes, Rossini, Thomas, Grieg, Handel, Caballero, Meyerbeer, Aubert, Verdi, Donizetti, Gounod, Flotow, de Falla), Aria (2 CD).
- Де Фалья — Historical Recordings 1923 — 1976, Almaviva.
- ʻO kā mākou mau leo i hoʻōla ʻia Vol. 1, Aria.
- Charles Hackett (Duet), Marston.
- ʻO ka Harold Wayne Collection, Symposium.
- Hipolito Lazaro (Duets), Preiser — LV.
