Eduardo Brito

Eduardo Brito (aka Eleuterio Aragonez , born January 21, 1905 in Puerto Plata ; † January 5, 1946 in San Cristóbel ) was a Dominican opera and tzarzuela singer ( baritone ).

Brito was discovered as a singer in 1927 at a banquet for Vice President José Dolores Alfonseca , where he appeared in an operetta program. He then performed in Cibao, San Pedro de Macorís and Santo Domingo and was awarded a scholarship for training in Italy, which he never took up. In 1928 he met the singer Rosa Elena Bobadilla , with whom he worked from then on and whom he married in 1929.

Brito and Bobadilla traveled with a group called Los Internacionales Haiti in 1928 and when they broke up they joined a Cuban group led by Margot Rodriguez , with whom they came to Puerto Rico. From there they returned to the Dominican Republic. In 1929 Brito founded the Grupo Dominicano (with Bienvenido Troncoso , Chita Jimenez and Enrique García ), with which he made several records in New York.

After the group broke up, the Britos stayed in New York. a. in the piece El Chico alongside the dancers Antonio and Catalina Cansino . Eduardo Brito recorded other records for RCA Victor . In 1932 he came with the company of Eliseo Grenet , who next to him and his wife a. a. Mapy and Fernando Cortés belonged to Spain. At the Teatro Nuevo de Barcelona he performed with great success in the Zarzuela La Virgen Morena by Aurelio Riancho and Eliseo Grenet.

He performed in other Zarzuelas such as Katiuska , Luisa Fernanda , La del Soto del Parral , El Cantar del Arriero , La del Manojo de Rosas , El Asombro de Damasco and Los Gavilanes before returning to the Dominican Republic in 1937 because of the Spanish Civil War. From here he traveled to Puerto Rica, New York and Cuba. In Havana he was celebrated for his interpretation of Marina with the Spanish tenor Hipólito Lázaro .

On another tour of South America financed by the industrialist Mario Ginebra , he appeared in the Zarzuela Los Gavilanes by Jacinto Guerrero with the young baritone Carlos Ramírez . Brito later went back to New York with his family. Having been in the Mayo Clinic a neurosyphilis was diagnosed, he returned to the Dominican Republic. He appeared several times in theaters and on the radio station La Voz del Yuma before the illness ended his career. He died of mental confusion in a mental hospital in early 1946. His life became the subject of the radio opera La vida de Eduardo Brito by Homero León Díaz .

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