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Pasquale Amato

Pasquale Amato. Credo in un Dio crudel (Iago in Verdi's Otello / 1911)

Wobadwira ku Naples, omwe amaphunzira zaka zambiri ndi Beniamino Carelli ndi Vincenzo Lombardi ku Conservatory ya San Pietro a Magella. Anayamba kuwonekera kumeneko mu 1900 monga Georges Germont ku Bellini Theatre. Ntchito yake yoyambirira idakula mwachangu, ndipo posakhalitsa anali atachita kale maudindo monga Escamillo, Renato, Valentin, Lescaut mu Puccini's Manon Lescaut. Amato amaimba ku Teatro dal Verme ku Milan, ku Genoa, Salerno, Catania, Monte Carlo, Odessa, m'mabwalo owonetsera ku Germany. Woimbayo amachita bwino kwambiri mu zisudzo "Maria di Rogan" ndi Donizetti ndi "Zaza" ndi Leoncavallo. Mu 1904, Pasquale Amato adayamba ku Covent Garden. Woimbayo amachita mbali ya Rigoletto, alternating ndi Victor Morel ndi Mario Sammarco, kubwerera ku mbali za Escamillo ndi Marseille. Pambuyo pake, adagonjetsa South Africa, akuchita bwino kwambiri m'madera onse a repertoire yake. Ulemerero umabwera kwa Amato mu 1907 atatha kuchita ku La Scala pa masewero a ku Italy a Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande monga Golo (mu gulu limodzi ndi Solomiya Krushelnitskaya ndi Giuseppe Borgatti). Mbiri yake imawonjezeredwa ndi maudindo a Kurvenal (Tristan und Isolde ndi Wagner), Gellner (Valli ndi Catalani), Barnabas (La Gioconda ndi Ponchielli).

Mu 1908, Amato anaitanidwa ku Metropolitan Opera, kumene anakhala bwenzi losatha la Enrico Caruso, makamaka mu nyimbo za ku Italy. Mu 1910, adatenga nawo gawo pawonetsero wapadziko lonse wa Puccini "Mtsikana Wakumadzulo" (gawo la Jack Rens) mu gulu limodzi ndi Emma Destinn, Enrico Caruso ndi Adam Didur. Zochita zake monga Count di Luna (Il trovatore), Don Carlos (Force of Destiny), Enrico Astona (Lucia di Lammermoor), Tonio (Pagliacci), Rigoletto, Iago ("Othello"), Amfortas ("Parsifal"), Scarpia ( "Tosca"), Prince Igor. Repertoire yake imaphatikizapo magawo 70. Amato amayimba m'zisudzo zosiyanasiyana zamasiku ano ndi Cilea, Giordano, Gianetti ndi Damros.

Kuyambira pachiyambi cha ntchito yake, Amato mopanda chifundo adagwiritsa ntchito mawu ake abwino kwambiri. Zotsatira za izi zinayamba kukhudza kale mu 1912 (pamene woimbayo anali ndi zaka 33 zokha), ndipo mu 1921 woimbayo anakakamizika kusiya zisudzo zake ku Metropolitan Opera. Mpaka 1932, iye anapitiriza kuimba mu zisudzo zigawo, m'zaka zake zomaliza Amato anaphunzitsa luso mawu ku New York.

Pasquale Amato ndi imodzi mwa ma baritones aku Italy. Mawu ake enieni, omwe sangasokonezedwe ndi ena aliwonse, adadziwika ndi mphamvu zodabwitsa komanso kaundula wapamwamba kwambiri. Kuphatikiza apo, Amato anali ndi luso labwino kwambiri la bel canto komanso mawu omveka bwino. Zolemba zake za Figaro, Renato "Eri tu", Rigoletto "Cortigiani", duets kuchokera ku "Rigoletto" (pamodzi ndi Frida Hempel), "Aida" (pamodzi ndi Esther Mazzoleni), mawu oyambira "Pagliacci", mbali za Iago ndi ena ndi zitsanzo zabwino kwambiri za luso la mawu.

Ma discography osankhidwa:

1. MET - 100 Oimba, RCA Victor.
2. Covent Garden pa Record Vol. 2, Pearl.
3. La Scala Edition Vol. 1, NDE.
4. Recital Vol. 1 (Arias from operas by Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Meyerbeer, Puccini, Franchetti, De Curtis, De Cristofaro), Preiser - LV.
5. Recital Vol. 2 (Arias wochokera ku zisudzo za Verdi, Wagner, Meyerbeer, Gomez, Ponchielli, Puccini, Giordano, Franchetti), Preiser - LV.
6. Ma Baritones Odziwika a ku Italy, Preiser - LV.