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  Ezio Pinza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Italian bass Ezio Pinza (18 May 1892 - 9 May 1957) was one of the outstanding opera singers of the first half of the 20th century.
Pinza was born in Rome and grew up in Ravenna.
Pinza's Met debut came November 1926 in Spontini's La Vestale, with famed American soprano Rosa Ponselle in the title role.
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 Ezio Pinza - Wikipedia, déi fräi Enzyklopedie
Den Ezio Pinza hat ni geléiert Noute vum Blat ze liesen, an a senger Autobiographie zielt hien, wéi de Rogers him e puer Melodien aus dem South Pacific um Piano virgespillt huet.
Den John B. Steane, de grousse Gesangsstëmmekenner schreiwt iwwer dem Pinza seng Stëmm:..the mellow fruitfullness of Pinza's tone, the richness of his colouring, the sturdiness of its growth nad the strenght of its flavour..
De Jürgen Kesting rechent de Pinza zu den "zwei Jahrhundertbässe", den aneren ass den Alexander Kipnis.
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 AllRefer.com - Ezio Pinza (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Ezio Pinza, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
Ezio Pinza[Ats´yO pEn´tsA] Pronunciation Key, 1892–1957, Italian bass, b.
After military service (1915–19), he resumed his operatic career in Rome, later singing at La Scala in Milan.
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 Review - GHCD 2234_35 L'Amore dei tre Re
Ezio Pinza (Archibaldo);Grace Moore (Fiora); Charles Kullman (Avito); richard Monelli (Manfredo); Alessio de Polis (Flaminio); Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House/ Italo Montemezzi.
Pinza’s tall figure, easily carrying the dead body of Fiora over his shoulder at the end of the second act, must have made a tremendous impression, on to which Montimezzi’s musical genius greatly contributed.
Pinza's tall figure, easily carrying the dead body of Fiora over his shoulder at the end of the second act, must have made a tremendous impression.
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 Ezio Pinza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Pinza's Met debut came November 1926 in Gaspare SpontiniSpontini's ''La Vestale'', with famed American soprano Rosa Ponselle in the title role.
He subsequently added the Wolfgang Amadeus MozartMozart roles The Marriage of FigaroFigaro (in 1940) and The Magic FluteSarastro (in 1942) to his repertoire, as well as a vast number of Italian operatic roles of Vincenzo_BelliniBellini, Gaetano DonizettiDonizetti, and Giuseppe VerdiVerdi, as well as Modest MussorgskyMussorgsky's ''Boris Godunov (opera)Boris Godunov/'' (sung in Italian).
In April 1949, he appeared in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''South Pacific'' and his sensual singing of "Some Enchanted Evening" made him a matinee idol and a national celebrity.
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 Classical Net Review - Prima Voce - Pinza
Pinza's glory lives in the suavest musical line this side of Duke Ellington and in the seamless evenness of his tone, low to high.
Even here, the liner notes by John Steane point out that Pinza was at first rejected as a vocal student on the grounds that he had no voice.
What Pinza lacks in 1923 is the beautiful singing line that I consider his hallmark.
www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/n/nim07875a.html   (908 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Ezio Pinza
There are well-earned tributes to Pittsburghers Claudia Pinza, not only for her performing career but for founding the highly successful Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera; and Mildred Miller Posvar, who sang leading roles in Pittsburgh and at the Met, then founded the company now called Opera Theater of Pittsburgh.
Pinza was so impressed that he paid for him to study with Enrico Rosati in New York, family members said.
She also won a fellowship from Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera, was a two-time winner in the Palm Beach Opera Awards, and won top prize in the National Opera Association Awards in Chicago.
dramatheatre.surfwax.com /files/Ezio_Pinza_Play.html   (806 words)

  
 Opera Shop: Ezio Pinza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Having studied at the Bologna Conservatory, Pinza made his début in 1914 as Oroveso in Norma  in Soncino, near Cremona.
After leaving the Metropolitan at the age of 56, he began a second career in musical comedy, operetta and musical films, scoring an enormous success on Broadway in South Pacific in 1949.
Pinza’s beautiful and cultivated basso cantante, his handsome presence, engaging personality and spirited acting made him the most richly gifted and accomplished Italian bass of his day.
bassocantante.com /opera/pinza.html   (173 words)

  
 village voice > news > When Being Italian was a Crime by Sarah Goodyear
They asked him, "Are you Ezio Pinza?" He admitted he was.
The bureau started gathering information in the case of Ezio Pinza as early as September of 1940, when it received a letter alleging he "is an active member of the Nazi party and he expresses openly and vociferously contempt for everything American.
In order to embark on a singing tour early in 1942, my grandfather had to sign his name 88 times to obtain the 22 permits that were necessary for him to make the trip.
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 TV Single Dads: Van Dyke Parks Interview
In a move to expand his potential audience, Ezio Pinza moved to the new medium of television, starring in a short-lived variety series on NBC called The RCA Victor Show in 1951.
Pinza, I would be grateful if you could get my son some dinner.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Ezio Pinza's character was a suddenly-retired opera singer because his wife had passed away, and he was responsible for taking care of his kids.
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 Opera Shop: Rethberg, Gigli, Pinza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Ezio Pinza is perhaps best remembered for his portrayal of de Becque in South Pacific, but he was a splendid basso and international opera star.
Pinza is likewise more than acceptable even though he has a rather droning vocal part.
The record itself is in fairly good shape except for the unfortunate distortion on the final chord, in this instance probably caused by much play with a worn needle.
bassocantante.com /opera/lombardi.html   (120 words)

  
 Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Ezio Pinza: MAIN
The rich basso voice of Italian opera star Ezio Pinza was heard in opera houses around the world.
He was born Fortunato (Ezio) Pinza in Rome in 1892, the seventh child of his...
The Italian bass Ezio Pinza (18 May 1892 - 9 May 1957) was one of the...
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 Pinza Enzio
He was born Fortunato (Ezio) Pinza in Rome in 1892, the seventh child of his parents and the first to survive.
In 1922, he was engaged at La Scala, making his debut as Pimen (Marcel Journet was Boris Godunov, Pinza admired him very much).
Pinza retired from the Met stage in 1948 and continued his great career appearing in musicals at the Broadway.
www.maurice-abravanel.com /pinza_enzio.html   (346 words)

  
 Grandi Tenori.com | Word of the Month   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The section will centre around "the definition of a word strictly within the context of opera, voice types, techniques," and enriched with libretto extracts, opera references, names of singers, etc. Launch will be near the middle of each month and only one word per month to start with.
The artistic rivalry between two great basses, Ezio Pinza and Alexander Kipnis, at the Met in 1942 became one of the most intelligent disputes in the whole history of opera.
Orfeo’s Caronte, L’incoronazione di Poppea’s Seneca, Cavalli Scipione l’Africano’s Massinissa and Pompeo Magno’s Cesare, Handel Tamerlano’s Leone and Ezio’s Varo are typical examples.
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 Nimbus Records, Prima Voce, NI 7875, Ezio Pinza - Booklet Note
When Pinza made his first published recordings, in June 1923, he was thirty-one years old and had just completed his first full season at La Scala.
Evidently a voice was now manifest, for Pinza was not merely accepted as a pupil but supported financially too.
Over the years his performance was to deepen, but in 1928 it was already hailed as a masterpiece of the lyric theatre: "an artist second to none" reported the critic of the New York World.
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 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Alfred Drake, Alfred Lunt, and Lynn Fontanne are the first that come to mind, but the same could be said of Ezio Pinza, the toast of the Great White Way in "South Pacific," whose career on celluloid never took off.
Here, Pinza plays a prince from Mitteleuropa who falls for nightery chirp Turner while he is on holiday in Italy.
A dozen years pass in a twinkling and Turner has become a huge Hollywood star when he strolls back in her life, which is currently (and conveniently) free of male companionship.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=7272   (339 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Music: Ezio Pinza Recital [Import]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Fausto Cleva (Conductor), Giulio Setti (Conductor), Rosario Bourdon (Conductor), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (Orchestra), Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra (Orchestra), Ezio Pinza (Performer)
Performed by Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra with Ezio Pinza
Performed by Metropolitan Opera Orchestra with Ezio Pinza, Tina Poli-Randaccio
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005WLA   (479 words)

  
 Pinza, Ezio
Ezio Pinza in Live Recordings 1937 - 1950
Ezio Pinza’ portrait of Boris Godunov is a more refined, intimate and very musical performance than we are used to hear.
He was also, I imagine, a man of some exceptional radiance, one who moved at ease in a world of wealth, art and fashion, and yet who kept a good deal of the simple countryman about him.”
www.cantabile-subito.de /Basses/Pinza__Ezio/hauptteil_pinza__ezio.html   (807 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Mr. Imperium : Main
Lana Turner, Ezio Pinza, Marjorie Main, Barry Sullivan
Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Ba...
Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Lana Turner) when the two meet on vacation in Italy.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/67858/moviemain.jhtml   (122 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Music: Rosa Ponselle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Performed by Ezio Pinza, Rosa Ponselle, Romano Romani
Performed by Ezio Pinza, Rosa Ponselle, Igor Chicagov
Performed by Ezio Pinza, Rosa Ponselle, Rosa Ponselle
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 MSN Encarta - Pinza
Pinza, Ezio (1892-1957), Italian operatic basso, born in Rome.
After studying at the University of Ravenna and the Bologna Conservatory, Pinza made...
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 EPCASO: Faculty
An expert in the Italian Bel Canto, Miss Pinza is a former leading soprano with the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, San Francisco and other major opera companies.
For the past twenty years she has devoted herself to teaching, bringing to her students a world of opera experience.
Presently, Claudia Pinza teaches a the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University.
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 eBay - ezio pinza, Records, CDs items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Ezio Pinza Premier Operatic Basso 1944 Columbia Ad 
MR IMPERIUM Lana Turner/Ezio Pinza orig '51 LC 
EZIO PINZA & FLORENCE HENDERSON in "FANNY" 1955 
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 San Francisco Memories: A super at the Opera
And 1937 could not have been a better year to be a super with stars like Lily Pons and Ezio Pinza performing at the War Memorial.
I remember walking the halls and hearing Pinza vocalizing in the distance.
I once passed Pinza in a corridor, but remembered the first rule I was given, "Supers must never speak to the stars."
americahurrah.com /SanFrancisco/Memories/sfmemOpera.html   (402 words)

  
 EZIO PINZA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Ezio Pinza Pensiero Musicale - Vincenzo BelliniCredo a quattro voci - Vincenzo BelliniVincenzo Bellini - Ezio Pinza other music:Malinconia, ninfa gentile - Vincenzo BelliniI puritani - Vincenzo Bellini
I Capuleti e i Montecchi Ezio Pinza - Vincenzo BelliniMa rendi pur contento - Vincenzo BelliniMalinconia, ninfa gentile - Vincenzo Ezio Pinza BelliniI Capuleti e i Montecchi - Vincenzo Bellini
I Capuleti e i Montecchi - Ezio Pinza Vincenzo BelliniLa Sonnambula - Vincenzo BelliniLa straniera - Vincenzo BelliniCapriccio - Vincenzo Ezio Pinza Bellini
www.opera-bellini.com /performers/Ezio_Pinza/Ezio_Pinza.html   (166 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Music: Ezio Pinza [Import]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Performed by Alessandro Orchestra Scarlatti with Ezio Pinza
Performed by RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra / Robert Shaw Chorale with Ezio Pinza
Performed by RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra with Ezio Pinza
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 'Ezio Pinza (1892-1957), Vol.1 [IMPORT]' by Giuseppe Verdi from The Portsmouth Chorus.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
'Ezio Pinza (1892-1957), Vol.1 [IMPORT]' by Giuseppe Verdi from The Portsmouth Chorus.
Ezio Pinza (1892-1957), Vol.1 [IMPORT], Giuseppe Verdi,Gaetano Donizetti,Fromental Halévy,Vincenzo Bellini,Carlo Sabajno,Rosario Bourdon,Giulio Setti,Orchestra,New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus,Ezio Pinza.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vincenzo Bellini, Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Rosario Bourdon, Carlo Sabajno, Bruno Reibold, Orchestra, Ezio Pinza, Tina Poli-Randaccio
www.theportsmouthchorus.com /music-cd/B0000037KV   (410 words)

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