Enzo Dara

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Enzo Dara (born October 13, 1938 in Mantua ; † August 25, 2017 there ) was an Italian opera singer ( bass ) and opera director .

Life

Training and beginnings

Dara initially worked as a journalist . He studied singing with Bruno Sutti in his native and hometown Mantua. He made his stage debut as an opera singer in 1960 at the Municipal Theater of Fano in the province of Pesaro as the philosopher Colline in La Bohème ; there he also sang Bartolo for the first time in Rossini's The Barber of Seville . After his military service he resumed his singing career and initially sang on Italian provincial stages. In 1966 he appeared at the Reggio Emilia Theater as Dulcamara in Donizetti's The Love Potion . In 1967 he also sang Bartolo there and then shifted his career in particular to the Buffo subject. In 1969 he sang the role of Mustafà in Rossini's Die Italienerin in Algiers at the Spoleto Festival .

Career

In the early 1970s, Dara's career began in the major Italian opera houses. In 1970 he made his debut with the role of Bartolo at La Scala in Milan . In 1976 he made a guest appearance with the ensemble of La Scala in Milan at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London as Dandini in La Cenerentola . In Italy Dara made guest appearances in the following years a. a. at the Opera House in Rome , at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice , in Palermo, Parma, Naples, Bologna and Genoa. He gave international guest performances in Germany, France, Brussels, Zagreb and at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow .

In October 1981 he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera as Dandini ; by 1990 he appeared there in over 50 performances, a. a. also as Bartolo and Taddeo in The Italian Woman in Algiers . In 1982 he made his debut as Bartolo at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City ; there he sang Dulcamara in 1991, and then also Bartolo in the 1993/94 season.

In 1984 he took on the role of the music-loving German Baron di Trombonok at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in the world premiere of the long-lost opera Il viaggio a Reims under the musical direction of Claudio Abbado . He sang this role at the Vienna State Opera in a total of 15 performances in 1988/1989. In the following years he also sang at the Rossini Festival: 1986 the Geronio in Il turco in Italia , 1988 the guardian Gaudenzio in Il signor Bruschino , 1991 the English businessman Tobias Mill in La cambiale di matrimonio , where he is in his role, “splendid sung and played ”as“ archcomedian ”and finally again in August 1992 as Barone di Trombonok,“ where he was best in his comedy ”, in the ensemble opera Il viaggio a Reims . In October 1992 he sang the Baron von Trombonok in several semi-staged performances of Il viaggio a Reims in the Berlin Philharmonie (Berliner Philharmoniker, conductor: Claudio Abbado) and again proved to be the “Italian buffo baritone par excellence”. In February / March 1992 he also sang Barone di Trombonok in four Viaggio performances at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara , where he “put on a mighty vocal and performance”.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Dara continued his sustained national and international career. He sang again at the Covent Garden Opera (1985 as Bartolo; 1987 as Dulcamara), at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice (1990; title role in Don Pasquale ), at the Teatro Zarzuela in Madrid (1990; as Selim in Il turco in Italia ), at the Teatro Regio in Turin (1991; as “plump” Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia ), at the Monte Carlo Opera House (1992/93 season, in “best Buffo manner” as Taddeo in L'italiana in Algeri ), at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo (1993), at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (in the 1990/91 season as Taddeo in L'italiana in Algeri , where he could be admired as a “thoroughbred actor and Rossini specialist”, who had “dazzling musicality for his role and a lot of sense for dry comedy ”, also in the 1993/94 season as Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola in the Munich debut of Cecilia Bartoli ), at the Houston Opera House (1995; as Don Magnifico), at the Teatro Regio in Parma ( 1996; as Simone in I quattro rusteghi ), at the Grand Théâtre de Genève (1997; as Don Magnifico) and at the Hamburg State Opera (1998; also as Don Magnifico).

In 2000 he appeared in Rome , on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the premiere of the opera Tosca , in the role of sacristan. He also made guest appearances at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 2000 (as Geronio in Il turco in Italia ) and again at the Bavarian State Opera (as Don Magnifico). In 2001, on the occasion of his 40th stage anniversary, Dara returned to the stage at La Scala in Milan, where he sang Don Magnifico in three gala performances. In this role he also made a guest appearance at the Greek National Opera in Athens in 2001 , where he also directed. From the end of 2001 Dara gradually retired from the opera stage as a singer. In March 2003 he sang Barone di Trombonok again in Il viaggio a Reims at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona , where he “compensated for age-related vocal deficits with his even more subtle playing and immense experience”.

Since the early 1990s, Dara had also repeatedly emerged as an opera director. It was first staged in 1990 in Venice by Rossini's Barber . He staged a. a. regularly in Bergamo and Venice. In the 1992/93 season he staged the Cimarosa one- act play Amor rende sagace (English title: Love makes you wise ) at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and at the same time sang the rejected elderly lover Ambrogio "with his usual admirable bravura". He was active as an opera director until 2015; his last stage work was a traditional production of Rossini's La cambiale di matrimonio (premiere: September 2015) at the Teatro La Fenice.

Roles and interpretation

In the course of his career, Dara sang mainly the classic bass buffo parts of the Italian bel canto repertoire, particularly in the works of Gioacchino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti , but also in operas by Pergolesi, Cimarosa, Galuppi, Paisiello and Salieri. Bartolo, Don Magnifico, the Barone di Trombonok and Don Pasquale were among his special highlights. He sang the role of Bartolo in over 400 performances during his stage career, including 41 performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Dara was considered to be one of the "most important and talented" bass players in Italy. He had great spirited and acting talent. He drew characters with "jovial and expressive" faces; In doing so, however, he always avoided comical exaggeration and never turned the characters he portrayed into "big bang". The conductor and Rossini specialist Alberto Zedda described Dara as "the most gifted comedian on the modern stage."

Private

Dara died at the age of 78 in his hometown of Mantua after a long illness. He was buried in closed family with closed doors.

Audio documents

Enzo Dara's voice is documented on numerous sound carriers and in video recordings. His complete recordings include a .:

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i È morto Enzo Dara, addio al basso buffo più famoso d'Italia . Death report and obituary. In: La Repubblica of August 27, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Acclaimed Italian Basso Buffo Enzo Dara has Died . Obituary. In: OPera nEws of August 27, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2017
  3. ↑ Enzo Dara's roles index. In: Chronik der Wiener Staatsoper 1945-2005 , p. 361. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2006. ISBN 3-85409-449-3 .
  4. ↑ L. RIVIERA: THE CHANGE OF MARRIAGE . Performance review. In: Opera glasses . Issue October 10, 1991. Page 20.
  5. ↑ Gina Guandalini / BH: THE LAST TRIUMPH . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Edition 12/13. December 1992. page 71.
  6. ↑ Ingrid Wanja: TIMELY ROSSINI HOMAGE . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Edition 12/13. December 1992. Page 128/129.
  7. ↑ MW Essinger: FERRARA: IL VIAGGIO A REIMS / ROSSINI GIG . Performance reviews. In: Opera glasses . Edition July / August 1992, page 15.
  8. ↑ Jean-Luc Wil / S.-L .: BEFORE AND BEHIND THE SCENES . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue October 10, 1991. Page 50.
  9. ↑ Julia Poser: LUCK . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue April 4, 1993. page 51.
  10. ↑ U. Ehrensberger: L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI . Performance review. In: Opera glasses . Issue May 5, 1991. Page 37/38.
  11. ↑ Marcello Santi: OPERA BUFFISSIMA . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue June 6, 1991. Page 47/48.
  12. ↑ P. King: BARCELONA: Il Viaggio a Reims . Performance review. In: Opera glasses . Edition May 2003. Pages 14–16.
  13. ↑ Gina Guandalini / GH: REPERTORIO ANTICO . Performance review. In: Orpheus . Issue April 4, 1993. page 49.
  14. ↑ "La Cambiale di Matrimonio" di Enzo Dara al Teatro La Fenice. Tradizionale con un pizzico di originalità, squisitamente. Di Stefano Duranti Poccetti . In: Corriere dello Spettacolo of September 23, 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
  15. ↑ a b Gran Buffone: the bass Enzo Dara ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Cultural radio rbb. Broadcast from Rainer Damm on February 20, 2017. Accessed on September 8, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturradio.de
personal data
SURNAME Dara, Enzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer (bass) and opera director
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Mantua
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2017
Place of death Mantua