Ezio Pinza (May 18, 1892 – May 9, 1957) was an Italian opera singer. A bass with a rich, smooth and sonorous voice, he spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 performances of 50 operas. Pinza also sang to great acclaim at La Scala, Milan, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.
After retiring from the Met in 1948, Pinza enjoyed a fresh career on Broadway in the musical theatre and also appeared in several Hollywood films.
Pinza was born in modest circumstances in Rome in 1892 and grew up on Italy's east coast, in the ancient city of Ravenna. He studied singing at Bologna's Conservatorio Martini, making his operatic debut in 1914, as Oroveso in Norma at Cremona.
A devotee of bicycle riding, Pinza also undertook four years of military service during World War I, prior to resuming his operatic career in Rome in 1919. He was then invited to sing at Italy's foremost opera house, La Scala, Milan, making his debut there in February 1922. At La Scala, under the direction of the brilliant and exacting principal conductor Arturo Toscanini, Pinza's career blossomed during the course of the next few seasons. He became a popular favourite of critics and audiences due to the high quality of his singing and the attractiveness of his stage presence.
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was a Italian opera composer. A native of Catania in Sicily, his greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi (1830), La sonnambula (1831), Norma (1831), Beatrice di Tenda (1833), and I puritani (1835). Known for his long-flowing melodic lines, for which he was named "the Swan of Catania", Bellini was the quintessential composer of bel canto opera. He died in Puteaux, France at the age of 33, nine months after the premiere of his last opera, I puritani.
Born in Catania, Sicily, Bellini was a child prodigy from a highly musical family and legend has it he could sing an aria of Valentino Fioravanti at eighteen months. He began studying music theory at two, the piano at three, and by the age of five could apparently play well. Bellini's first five pieces were composed when he was just six years old. Regardless of the veracity of these claims, it is certain that Bellini grew up in a musical household and that a career as a musician was never in doubt.
Ezio Pinza - Some Enchanted Evening (best sound quality)
EZIO PINZA SINGS " OMBRA MAI FU"
Ezio Pinza-Lana Turner ' You Belong To My Heart'
Mozart / Ezio Pinza, 1946: Madamina (Don Giovanni) - Bruno Walter, Metropolitan Opera Orch.
Some Enchanted Evening
Whats my line? - Ezio Pinza
EZIO PINZA " O ISIS UND OSIRIS" MOZART
Some Enchanted Evening - Ezio Pinza
7 South pacific Ezio Pinza This nearly was mine et Ezio Pinza et Mary Martin Final
Ezio Pinza sings Osmin's aria in Italian
Ezio Pinza, Don Carlo, Ella giammai m'amo
SKITCH HENDERSON INTERVIEWS EZIO PINZA 1953
EZIO PINZA " SEPTEMBER SONG" WEILL--ANDERSON
Basso EZIO PINZA - Nabucco "Vieni o Levita" (1951)
Ezio Pinza - Some Enchanted Evening (best sound quality)
EZIO PINZA SINGS " OMBRA MAI FU"
Ezio Pinza-Lana Turner ' You Belong To My Heart'
Mozart / Ezio Pinza, 1946: Madamina (Don Giovanni) - Bruno Walter, Metropolitan Opera Orch.
Some Enchanted Evening
Whats my line? - Ezio Pinza
EZIO PINZA " O ISIS UND OSIRIS" MOZART
Some Enchanted Evening - Ezio Pinza
7 South pacific Ezio Pinza This nearly was mine et Ezio Pinza et Mary Martin Final
Ezio Pinza sings Osmin's aria in Italian
Ezio Pinza, Don Carlo, Ella giammai m'amo
SKITCH HENDERSON INTERVIEWS EZIO PINZA 1953
EZIO PINZA " SEPTEMBER SONG" WEILL--ANDERSON
Basso EZIO PINZA - Nabucco "Vieni o Levita" (1951)
Ezio Pinza - "Non Più Andrai"
Ezio Pinza sings "La Calunnia" from Barber of Seville
EZIO PINZA " AH! DEL TEBRO AL GIOGO INDEGNO" VINCENZO BELLINI
ROSA PONSELLE,GIOVANNI MARTINELLI, EZIO PINZA - La forza del destino "Pace, mio Dio e finale" (1928)
Ezio Pinza sings "Il Lacerato Spirito" from Simon Boccanegra
EZIO PINZA " CARO MIO BEN" TOMMASO GIORDANI
"Chanson du toréador" Ezio Pinza
What's My Line? - Ezio Pinza (Nov 1, 1953)
Ezio Pinza Faust Charles Gounod.WMV
What's My Line? - Dorothy Lamour; Ezio Pinza [panel] (Feb 20, 1955)
What's My Line? - Dorothy Lamour; Ezio Pinza [panel] (Feb 20, 1955)
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR with EZIO PINZA 04 09 1944 complete concert
Don Giovanni Pinza Kipnis Bampton Novotna Kullman Walter 1942 LIVE
KRAFT MUSIC HALL 03 06 1948 EZIO PINZA & AL JOLSON
THE BIG SHOW 12 11 1951 with EZIO PINZA JANE POWELL others
BEST OF ALL 08 11 1954 with EZIO PINZA - EARL WRIGHTSON -OTHERS
Mozart: Don Giovanni - New York, 1934 (Pinza, Ponselle, Schipa, Müller; dir. Serafin)
Verdi / Caniglia / Gigli / Pinza / Stignano, 1939: Requiem Mass - Tullio Serafin - Complete, Indexed
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR 15 01 1945 with EZIO PINZA
Léo Delibes: Lakmé - New York, 1940 (Pons, Tokatyan, Pinza; dir. Pelletier)
Beethoven: Missa solemnis - Cincinnati, 1937 (Flagstad, Jagel, Pinza; dir. Goosens)
Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia - New York, 1938 (Pons, Pinza, Thomas; dir. Papi)
Rehearsing for the Bell Telephone Hour Radio Show - AT&T; Archives
Mozart: Don Giovanni, act 2 highlights - St Louis, 1941 (Pinza, Roselle, Della Chiesa, Schipa; dir.
Verdi-Messa da Requiem-Fanelli,Minghini Cattaneo,Lo Giudice,Pinza
Mr.Imperium (1951)
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, act 2 - New York, 1941 (Tuminia, Pinza, Baccaloni; dir. Papi)
How to Sing Bel Canto: The Art of Singing
Grosse Stimmen als Sarastro im Vergleich - mit Gottlob Frick, Marek Kalbus, Kurt Moll u. v. a.
MR. IMPERIUM (MR. IMPERIUM, 1951, Full movie, Spanish, Cinetel)
LAISSE-MOI T'AIMER (1951) V.O. Sous-Titrée Français
Ezio Pinza with the Budapest String Quartet - "An X-Rated Song"
Ezio Pinza-Lana Turner 'Let Me Look At You'
Ezio Pinza, O tu Palermo
Ezio Pinza
Ezio Pinza, Raoul Jobin & Nicola Moscona "Pour conjurer le danger" Les Contes d`Hoffmann
EZIO PINZA SINGS - SOME ENCHANTED EVENING 1951 RADIO BROADCAST
Ezio Pinza Judy Canova radio skit 1950
WHATS MY LINE - 23 01 1955 with EZIO PINZA
EZIO PINZA SINGS - LE COR 1951 BROADCAST
EZIO PINZA SINGS - SEPTEMBER SONG 1950 with MEREDITH WILSON
EZIO PINZA SINGS " SOUS LES PIEDS"
LAWRENCE TIBBETT & EZIO PINZA "Suona ogni labbro" Simone Boccanegra
EZIO PINZA SINGS - OMBRA MAI FU 1944 BROADCAST
EZIO PINZA SINGS - IL LACERATO SPIRITO VERDI 1950 BROADCAST
Ezio Pinza in "Boris Godunov" Coronation Scene
Letra y MÇsica: M.Escobar
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