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Ezio Fortunato Pinza (May 18, 1892 – May 9, 1957) was an Italian opera singer. Pinza possessed a rich, smooth and sonorous voice, with a flexibility unusual for a bass. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 performances of 50 operas.
Oct 2, 2020 · Although Pinza logged in 750 performances in 50 operas at the Met and even had a career on the Broadway stage and in Hollywood, his imprisonment ruined his health “and led to severe bouts of depression,” Goodyear wrote.
Ezio Pinza was born on May 18, 1892 in Rome, Lazio, Italy as Fortunato Pinza. He was an actor, known for the Broadway play, South Pacific, movies, Mr. Imperium (1951) and Tonight We Sing (1953). He was married to Doris Leak and Augusta Casinelli. He died on May 9, 1957 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.
May 14, 2024 · Ezio Pinza (born May 18, 1892, Rome, Italy—died May 9, 1957, Stamford, Conn., U.S.) was an Italian-born operatic bass and actor. Pinza studied civil engineering before turning, at his father’s urging, to singing. At 18 he sang Oroveso in Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma at Cremona.
Apr 4, 2008 · Artist: Ezio Pinza Title: "Some Enchanted Evening" (from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific") Label: Columbia Masterworks Cat No: OL 4180 Release Year: 1957 (re-release) (recorded April...
Handsome, velvet-voiced, and with a magnetic personality, Italian basso cantante Ezio Pinza (b. Rome, Italy, May 18, 1892; d. Stamford, CT, USA, May 9, 1957) was one of the most brilliant international opera stars of the mid-twentierth century.
Died May 9, 1957 of stroke in Stamford, CT. E zio Pinza was a musical comedy star and Metropolitan Opera basso. He began his career in his native Italy in 1914 and went on to...
May 18, 2018 · Italian bass Ezio Pinza, born on May 18, 1892, never learned to read music. But that didn’t stop him from enjoying a massively successful career. The bass grew up in Ravenna and would study in Bologna. He made his Operatic debut in 1914 at Cremona.
May 18, 2017 · The opera star Ezio Pinza, who had 22 seasons at the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1926 to 1948 and sang to great acclaim at many other of the world’s most famous opera houses, was born on this day in 1892 in Rome.
Italian by birth, Ezio Pinza was an accomplished actor who appeared in a variety of Hollywood films. His music was also used in the John Belushi action film 'The Blues Brothers' (1980) and the...
