Giacomo Rimini
Giacomo Rimini (born March 22, 1887 in Verona , † March 6, 1952 in Chicago ) was an American opera singer (baritone) and vocal teacher of Italian origin.
Rimini studied singing with Amelia Conti-Feroni in Verona . He made his debut at the Desenzano Municipal Theater in 1910 as Albert in Jules Massenet's Werther and then appeared at various Italian opera houses, such as the Teatro Regio di Torino (1914), the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. Arturo Toscanini engaged him in 1915 for the title role in a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan; this performance was in the same year at La Scala in Milan in front of King Victor Emanuel III. repeated.
Around this time he met the Polish singer Rosa Raisa , whom he later married. With her he went on a tour to South America in 1916, where they performed together at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in Verdi's La battaglia di Legnano . In 1916 both received an engagement at the Chicago Opera, where Rimini stayed until the end of his career. He sang there a. a. In 1917 in the American premiere of Pietro Mascagni's Isabeau den Raimondo and in 1919 in the American premiere of Alfredo Catalani's opera Loreley . He also appeared again at the Teatro Colón (1924) and at the festival in the summer opera of Ravinia.
Rimini and his wife regularly traveled to Italy, where they owned a house in Verona. There he made guest appearances at the Verona Festival in 1923 and 1933, sang the role of Ping in the world premiere of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot at La Scala in Milan in 1926 (alongside Rosa Raisa in the title role) and in 1932 at La Scala in Milan as Don Pasquale and as Gianni Schicchi up. Further guest appearances have taken him to the Covent Garden Opera in London and to the Städtische Oper Berlin (1933), the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste (1934, as Don Giovanni ), the Teatro Regio di Parma (1936) and the opera houses of Budapest, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Rosario.
In his farewell appearance in Chicago in 1937 he sang the plumkett in Friedrich von Flotow's Martha together with Edith Mason and Tito Schipa . Then he founded a singing school with his wife, which lasted thirty years.
Web links
- Giacomo Rimini at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Forgotten Opera Singers - Giacomo Rimini
- Opera Nostalgia- Giacomo Rimini
Individual evidence
- ^ Giacomo Rimini in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 16, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rimini, Giacomo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American opera singer (baritone) and vocal teacher of Italian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Verona |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1952 |
| Place of death | Chicago |