Bruno Landi (tenor)

Biography

Bruno Landi was a "Light lyric tenor" "the clear voice, considerable extension and issue easy and very well controlled, but frequently resorted to the notes in falsetto" <ref> Evaristo Pagani, Collections Biographical Italian Opera Singers , published on his own, Albino, 2009. </ ref>, debuted in 1925 to Campi Bisenzio in the part of the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto .

In 1927 to Florence he sang in the role of Count Almaviva in D' The Barber of Seville (Rossini), The Barber of Seville . In 1931 performed yet it The Barber of Seville to Teatro Regio of Parma, where he returned in 1939 in Faust , with Magda Olivero, Andrea Mongelli and Tancredi Pasero. In 1933 sang in Gianni Schicchi and it I quatro rusteghi to Rome Opera. During the 1936 debuted at Scala as Fenton in Falstaff , with the direction of Victor De Sabata and a cast which included Maria Caniglia, Mafalda Favero and Mariano Stabile.

In 1938 Bruno Landi took part in a tour in the United States, appearing in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Metropolitan Theatre of New York, in Rigoletto , Leona Lewis , L'amico Fritz , Martha' '. At the Metropolitan he was cast for seven seasons.

He later left for 'Latin America, where he sang in Mexico City, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Santiago, Rosario.

Returning to La Scala in 1939 for the world premiere of La dama boba of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. In 1947 to Teatro Pergolesi of Jesi was the protagonist in Manon with a very young Renata Scotto. These roles were the most popular; The Barber of Seville (Rossini), Count Almaviva D', and Des Grieux.

In the forties, in the heyday voice, recorded two complete works: The Barber of Seville Rossini anus and Rigoletto , in addition to some individual tracks, now remastered in CD.

He retired from the stage at the end of the fifties and settled in Buenos Aires, where he taught singing with his wife, the soprano Argentine Hilde Reggiani.

His Repertoire

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The Marriage of Figaro (Basil)
• Vincenzo Bellini
  • Dizzy (Elvino)
• Gioachino Rossini
  • The Barber of Seville (Conte d'Almaviva)
  • Cinderella (Ramiro)
• Gaetano Donizetti
  • Leona Lewis (Nemorino)
  • Don Pasquale (Ernesto)
  • The favorite (Fernando)
  • Lucia di Lammermoor (Edgardo)
• Giuseppe Verdi
  • Rigoletto (Duke of Mantua)
  • La Traviata (Alfredo Germont)
  • Falstaff (Fenton)
• Giacomo Puccini
  • La bohème (Rodolfo)
  • Tosca (Mario Cavaradossi)
  • Madama Butterfly (Pinkerton)
  • Gianni Schicchi (Rinuccio)
• Pietro Mascagni
  • L'amico Fritz (Fritz)
• Jules Massenet
  • Manon (Des Grieux)
  • Werther (Werther)
  • Thaïs (Nicias)
• Charles Gounod
  • Faust (Faust)
• Carl Maria Von Weber
  • Oberon (Hugh of Bordeux)
• Georges Bizet
  • The Pearl Fishers (Nadir)
• Ambroise Thomas
  • Mignon (Wilhelm)
• Friedrich von Flotow
  • Martha (Lionel)
• Arrigo Boito
  • Mephistopheles (Faust)
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
  • I quatro rusteghi (Richard Conte)
  • La dama boba (Lorenzo)

Discography

• Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville , interpreters: Bruno Landi, Lily Pons, Pompilio Malatesta, [[John Charles Thomas] ], Josephine Tumina, Ezio Pinza. Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Theatre Opera, director Gennaro Papi - Live, January 22 1938 - These are engraved in 33 rpm records by Unique Opera Records Corp. UORC129 USA.
• Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville , interpreters: Bruno Landi, Wilfred Engelman, Lucille Browning, Hilde Reggiani , Carlos Ramirez, Lorenzo Alvary, John Gurney. Orchestra, and Chorus RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra director Giuseppe Bamboschek - 1940.
• Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville , interpreters: Bruno Landi, Salvatore Baccaloni, Josephine Tuminia, [[John Charles Thomas] ], Wilfred Engelman, Ezio Pinza, Irma Petina, John Dudley. Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera Assoc. - Director Giuseppe Bamboschek - Live March 1 1941 - Engraved in 33 rpm discs from The Golden Age of Opera (EJS139), remastered and then etched in two CDs by Omega, for the series "Opera Archive" , n ° 393 - USA.
• Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto , interpreters: Bruno Landi, Robert Weede, Hilde Reggiani, Nicola Moscona, Bruna Castagna . Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Theatre of New York, director Ettore Panizza, live recording 1942.
• Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto , interpreters: Bruno Landi, Hilde Reggiani, Frank Valentino. Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Eliseo of Rome, director Manrico De Tura - 1953.
• Giacomo Puccini, La bohème : "What a cold little hand."
• Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville : "That's laughing in heaven."
• Gaetano Donizetti, Don Pasquale 'Poor Ernesto ".
• Jules Massenet, Werther : "Ah I ridestar".
• Friedrich von Flotow, Martha 'appeared to me. "

References

• Dionisio Petrella, Los italianos en la historia de la Argentine culture , Asociación Dante Alighieri, 1979.

External links

• Bruno Landi, La bohème : "What a cold little hand." Video on You Tube.