Titta Ruffo |

Nānā iā Ruffo

Ua hana ʻo ia i kāna hoʻomaka mua ma 1898 (Roma, ʻāpana o ka Royal Herald ma ka opera Lohengrin). Ua hīmeni ʻo ia mai 1903 ma Covent Garden (mau ʻāpana o Enrico ma Lucia di Lammermoor, Figaro). I ka makahiki 1904, ua hoʻokani ʻo ia no ka manawa mua ma La Scala (Rigoletto). Kaapuni pinepine i Rusia (1904-07, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa, Kharkov). ʻO ka lanakila nui i hele pū me ka mea mele ma ka hapa o Hamlet i ka opera o ka inoa hoʻokahi e Tom (1908, Buenos Aires, keaka "Colon"). ʻO kēia kuleana, āna i pāʻani ai mai ka makahiki 1906, ua lilo ia i mea maikaʻi loa i kāna ʻoihana. I ka makahiki 1912, ua hana mua 'o Ruffo i ka 'Amelika. I ka makahiki 1921-29 he kanaka hoʻokahi ʻo ia ma ka Metropolitan Opera (debut as Figaro). ʻO nā kuleana ʻē aʻe ʻo Tonio ma Pagliacci, Amonasro, Iago, Count di Luna, Barnabas ma Ponchielli's Gioconda, Scarpia, Falstaff a me nā mea ʻē aʻe. Ua komo 'o Giordano a me Panisa i ka ho'omaka 'ana o ka opera honua. ʻO Titta Ruffo kekahi o nā mele kaulana loa o ke kenekulia 1931. Ua hīmeni ʻo ia ma nā papa alakaʻi o ka honua, i ka makahiki 1935 ua hoʻopau ʻo ia i kāna hana keaka. Ua hāʻawi ʻo ia i kāna ʻaha mele hope loa i ka makahiki 1937 (Cannes). Ka mea kākau o kahi puke memoir (1904, ma ka unuhi Lūkini: "The parabola of my life"). Mai ka XNUMX ua hoʻopaʻa ʻo ia ma nā moʻolelo.

E. Tsoodokov