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Pasquale Amato

Pasquale Amato. Credo in un Dio crudel (Iago in Verdi's Otello / 1911)

Hānau ʻia ma Naples, me nā makahiki pili i ke aʻo ʻana me Beniamino Carelli lāua ʻo Vincenzo Lombardi ma ka Conservatory o San Pietro a Magella. Ua hoʻomaka ʻo ia ma laila i ka makahiki 1900 ma ke ʻano he Georges Germont ma ka Bellini Theatre. Ua ulu wikiwiki kāna ʻoihana mua, a ʻaʻole i liʻuliʻu, ua hana ʻo ia i nā hana e like me Escamillo, Renato, Valentin, Lescaut ma Puccini's Manon Lescaut. Hoʻokani ʻo Amato ma ka Teatro dal Verme ma Milan, ma Genoa, Salerno, Catania, Monte Carlo, Odessa, ma nā hale kiʻiʻoniʻoni ma Kelemānia. Hoʻokani maikaʻi loa ka mea mele ma nā keaka "Maria di Rogan" na Donizetti a me "Zaza" na Leoncavallo. I ka makahiki 1904, ua hoʻomaka ʻo Pasquale Amato i kāna hana mua ma Covent Garden. Hoʻokani ka mea mele i ka ʻāpana o Rigoletto, e hoʻololi ana me Victor Morel a me Mario Sammarco, e hoʻi ana i nā ʻāpana o Escamillo a me Marseille. Ma hope o kēlā, lanakila ʻo ia i ʻApelika Hema, e hana ana me ka lanakila nui ma nā wahi āpau o kāna repertoire. Hele mai ka hanohano iā Amato i ka makahiki 1907 ma hope o ka hoʻokani ʻana ma La Scala ma ka hoʻomaka mua ʻana o Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande e like me Golo (ma kahi hui me Solomiya Krushelnitskaya a me Giuseppe Borgatti). Hoʻopiha ʻia kāna repertoire me nā kuleana o Kurvenal (Tristan und Isolde na Wagner), Gellner (Valli na Catalani), Barnabas (La Gioconda na Ponchielli).

I ka makahiki 1908, ua kono ʻia ʻo Amato i ka Metropolitan Opera, kahi i lilo ai ʻo ia i hoa mau o Enrico Caruso, ʻo ka hapa nui ma ka repertoire Italia. I ka makahiki 1910, ua komo ʻo ia i ka hoʻomaka mua o ka honua o Puccini's "The Girl from the West" (ka ʻāpana o Jack Rens) i kahi hui me Emma Destinn, Enrico Caruso a me Adam Didur. ʻO kāna mau hana e like me Count di Luna (Il trovatore), Don Carlos (Force of Destiny), Enrico Astona (Lucia di Lammermoor), Tonio (Pagliacci), Rigoletto, Iago ("Othello"), Amfortas ("Parsifal"), Scarpia ( "Tosca"), ke Keikialii Igor. Loaʻa i kāna repertoire ma kahi o 70 mau hana. Hīmeni ʻo Amato i nā keaka mele o kēia manawa na Cilea, Giordano, Gianetti a me Damros.

Mai ka hoʻomaka ʻana o kāna ʻoihana, ua hoʻohana ʻole ʻo Amato i kāna leo nani. Ua hoʻomaka ka hopena o kēia i ka makahiki 1912 (i ka makahiki 33 wale nō o ka mea mele), a i ka makahiki 1921 ua koi ʻia ka mea mele e hoʻōki i kāna hana ma ka Metropolitan Opera. A hiki i ka makahiki 1932, ua hoʻomau ʻo ia i ka hīmeni ʻana i nā hale kiʻiʻoniʻoni kūloko, i kāna mau makahiki hope i aʻo ai ʻo Amato i ka leo leo ma New York.

ʻO Pasquale Amato kekahi o nā barona Italia nui loa. ʻO kona leo kikoʻī, ʻaʻole hiki ke huikau me nā mea ʻē aʻe, kū i waho me ka mana kupaianaha a me kahi papa inoa o luna. Eia kekahi, ua loaʻa iā Amato ka ʻenehana bel canto maikaʻi loa a me ka ʻōlelo impeccable. ʻO kāna mau hoʻopaʻa ʻana o nā arias o Figaro, Renato "Eri tu", Rigoletto "Cortigiani", duets mai "Rigoletto" (i ka hui pū me Frida Hempel), "Aida" (i ka hui pū me Esther Mazzoleni), ka prologue mai "Pagliacci", Aia nā ʻāpana o Iago a me nā mea ʻē aʻe i nā hiʻohiʻona maikaʻi loa o ke kiʻi leo.

discography i koho ʻia:

1. MET — 100 mele, RCA Victor.
2. Covent Garden ma Record Vol. 2, Momi.
3. La Scala Edition Vol. 1, NDE.
4. Heluhelu Vol. 1 (Arias mai nā opera na Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Meyerbeer, Puccini, Franchetti, De Curtis, De Cristofaro), Preiser - LV.
5. Heluhelu Vol. 2 (Arias mai nā opera na Verdi, Wagner, Meyerbeer, Gomez, Ponchielli, Puccini, Giordano, Franchetti), Preiser - LV.
6. Kaulana Italia Baritones, Preiser — LV.