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Ezio Pinza
operatic bass
Rome, Italy • 1892-05-18 – 1957-05-09
Ezio Pinza is credited on 411 releases across 98 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2020 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
411
Pressings credited
98
Albums
8
Decades active
11
In collections
Biography
Ezio Fortunato Pinza (May 18, 1892 – May 9, 1957) was an Italian opera singer. Pinza possessed a rich, smooth and sonorous voice, with a flexibility unusual for a bass. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 performances of 50 operas. At the San Francisco Opera, Pinza sang 26 roles during 20 seasons from 1927 to 1948. Pinza also sang to great acclaim at La Scala, Milan, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. After retiring from the Metropolitan Opera in 1948, Pinza enjoyed a fresh career on Broadway in musical theatre, most notably in South Pacific, in which he created the role of Emile de Becque. He was less successful in his appearances in Hollywood films.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
411 releases · 98 albums · active 1951–2020
- Performance · 528
- Other credits · 7
Studios: Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma · The Metropolitan Opera House · Liederkranz Hall, New York · Salzburger Festspiele
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Beniamino Gigli
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Verdi
- Mozart
- Donizetti
- Rosa Ponselle
- Giuseppe Verdi
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