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Pasquale Amato

Pasquale Amato. UCredo ku-un Dio crudel (Iago ku-Otello ka-Verdi / 1911)

Uzalelwe eNaples, okuhlanganisa iminyaka yokufunda noBeniamino Carelli kanye noVincenzo Lombardi eConservatory yaseSan Pietro a Magella. Uqale lapho ngo-1900 njengoGeorges Germont eBellini Theatre. Umsebenzi wakhe wokuqala wakhula ngokushesha, futhi ngokushesha wayesevele edlala indima efana ne-Escamillo, Renato, Valentin, Lescaut kuManon Lescaut kaPuccini. U-Amato ucula eTeatro dal Verme eMilan, eGenoa, Salerno, Catania, Monte Carlo, Odessa, ezinkundleni zemidlalo yeshashalazi eJalimane. Lo mculi wenza ngempumelelo enkulu ku-opera ethi “Maria di Rogan” kaDonizetti kanye nethi “Zaza” kaLeoncavallo. Ngo-1904, u-Pasquale Amato wenza i-debut yakhe e-Covent Garden. Umculi wenza ingxenye kaRigoletto, eshintshana noVictor Morel noMario Sammarco, ebuyela ezingxenyeni ze-Escamillo naseMarseille. Ngemuva kwalokho, unqoba iNingizimu Afrika, wenza ngempumelelo enkulu kuzo zonke izingxenye zomculo wakhe. Inkazimulo iza ku-Amato ngo-1907 ngemva kokucula e-La Scala embukisweni wokuqala wase-Italy we-Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande njengoGolo (ehlanganisweni no-Solomiya Krushelnitskaya kanye no-Giuseppe Borgatti). I-repertoire yakhe igcwaliswa ngezindima zikaKurvenal (Tristan und Isolde by Wagner), Gellner (Valli by Catalani), Barnabas (La Gioconda by Ponchielli).

Ngo-1908, u-Amato wamenywa kuMetropolitan Opera, lapho aba khona njalo umlingani ka-Enrico Caruso, ikakhulukazi ku-repertoire yase-Italy. Ngo-1910, wabamba iqhaza kumdlalo wokuqala womhlaba kaPuccini othi "Intombazane YaseNtshonalanga" (ingxenye kaJack Rens) ehlangene no-Emma Destinn, u-Enrico Caruso no-Adam Didur. Imisebenzi yakhe njengo-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. I-repertoire yakhe ihlanganisa izindima ezingaba ngu-70. U-Amato ucula kuma-opera esimanje ka-Cilea, u-Giordano, u-Gianetti no-Damros.

Kusukela ekuqaleni komsebenzi wakhe, u-Amato wasebenzisa kabi izwi lakhe elihle. Imiphumela yalokhu yaqala ukuthinteka ngo-1912 (lapho umculi eneminyaka engu-33 kuphela ubudala), futhi ngo-1921 umculi waphoqeleka ukuba ayeke ukudlala kwakhe eMetropolitan Opera. Kuze kube ngu-1932, waqhubeka nokucula ezinkundleni zemidlalo yaseshashalazini, eminyakeni yakhe yokugcina u-Amato wafundisa ubuciko bezwi eNew York.

I-Pasquale Amato ingenye ye-baritones yase-Italy enkulu kakhulu. Izwi lakhe eliqondile, elingeke lidideke nanoma yiliphi elinye, lagqama ngamandla amangalisayo kanye nerejista ebabazekayo ephezulu. Ngaphezu kwalokho, u-Amato wayenesu elihle kakhulu le-bel canto kanye nokukhuluma kahle. Ukuqoshwa kwakhe kwe-arias ye-Figaro, u-Renato "Eri tu", u-Rigoletto "Cortigiani", ama-duets avela ku-"Rigoletto" (ehlanganiswe noFrida Hempel), "Aida" (ehlanganiswe no-Esther Mazzoleni), isethulo esivela ku-"Pagliacci", izingxenye ze-Iago nezinye ziyizibonelo ezinhle kakhulu zobuciko bezwi.

I-discography ekhethiwe:

1. Hlangana - 100 Singers, RCA Victor.
2. Covent Garden on Record Vol. 2, Pearl.
3. La Scala Edition Vol. 1, NDE.
4. I-Recital Vol. 1 (U-Arias ovela kuma-opera kaRossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Meyerbeer, Puccini, Franchetti, De Curtis, De Cristofaro), Preiser – LV.
5. I-Recital Vol. 2 (U-Arias ovela kuma-opera kaVerdi, Wagner, Meyerbeer, Gomez, Ponchielli, Puccini, Giordano, Franchetti), Preiser – LV.
6. Abadumile base-Italian Baritones, Preiser - LV.