Hoʻomaikaʻi (Justino Díaz) |

Justin Diaz

No Puerto Rico. Debut 1963 (Metropolitan Opera, Monterone ma Rigoletto). Ua komo 'o ia i ka honua mua o Antony a me Cleopatra na Barber ma ka Metropolitan Opera (1966, title role). I ka makahiki 1969 ua hana ʻo ia i ka ʻāpana o Mohammed II ma Rossini's The Siege of Corinth (La Scala). I ka makahiki 1974 ua hīmeni ʻo ia ma ka Metropolitan Opera ma ke ʻano he Procida ma Verdi's Sicilian Vespers. Mai ka makahiki 1976 ma Covent Garden (debut as Escamillo).

Ua hoʻokani ʻo ia i ke kuleana o Iago ma ke kiʻi ʻoniʻoni kaulana ʻo Othello (1986, alakaʻi ʻia e Zeffirelli). I ka makahiki 1992, ua hoʻokani ka mea mele ma ke keaka ʻakaʻaka a Franchetti ʻo Christopher Columbus (Miami). ʻO Mohammed II (conductor Schippers, EMI), Nelusco ma Meyerbeer's African Woman (conductor Arena, LD, Pioneer).

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