Ezio Pinza (May 18, 1892 - May 9 1957) was an Italian basso opera singer. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 performances of 50 operas. He also sang to great acclaim at La Scala, Milan, and at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden. After retiring from the Met in 1948, he enjoyed a fresh career on Broadway in the musical theatre and appeared in several films.
Pinza was born in modest circumst...
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Ezio Pinza (May 18, 1892 - May 9 1957) was an Italian basso opera singer. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 performances of 50 operas. He also sang to great acclaim at La Scala, Milan, and at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden. After retiring from the Met in 1948, he enjoyed a fresh career on Broadway in the musical theatre and appeared in several films.
Pinza was born in modest circumstances in Rome in 1892 and grew up in Ravenna. He studied at Bologna's Conservatorio Martini and his operatic debut came in 1914, as Oroveso in Norma, in Cremona.
After enduring four years of military service during World War I, Pinza resumed his operatic career in Rome in 1919. He then sang 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...
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