Gabriella Besanzoni

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Gabriella Besanzoni

Gabriella Besanzoni (born September 20, 1888 in Rome ; died July 8, 1962 there ) was an Italian opera singer with a mezzo-soprano and alto voice .

Life

Gabriella Besanzoni was a daughter of Francesco Besanzoni and Angela Spadoni. Her brother Ernesto Besanzoni (1894–1969) also became an opera singer. Besanzoni had her vocal training with Alessandro Maggi and Hilda Brizzi at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia . She had her first certified appearance at the Teatro Nuovo di Spoleto in 1910 as a soprano in the opera L'amico Fritz . She sang in Viterbo in 1911 , where she received the soprano role of Adalgisa in Norma from Vincenzo Bellini . In 1913 she sang the mezzo-soprano Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and sang there in the same year in the world premiere of the opera La Leggenda delle sette Torri by Alberto Gasco (1879–1938). In 1914 she worked at the Teatro Regio di Torino in the supporting role of the slave in the world premiere of the opera Francesca da Rimini by Riccardo Zandonai . In 1919/20 she had her inaugural role as Amneris in Aida at the Metropolitan Opera of New York City , where she also sang Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri . When she appeared in Aida together with Enrico Caruso during a guest performance in Havana in 1920 , a bomb exploded in the auditorium during the second act.

Besanzoni continued to appear at the Chicago Opera House , as Carmen and Dalila at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. Since 1918 she has been a regular guest at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires , where she roles as Carmen, as Mignon, as the title character in Orpheus by Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1924), as Amneris, as Dalila and in 1918 as Glorianda in the world premiere of the opera Jacquerie received from Gino Marinuzzi . Between 1922 and 1935 she appeared repeatedly at the Rio de Janeiro Opera House . In 1923/24 she was engaged as Orpheus and Amneris at La Scala in Milan and there as Carmen and Mignon in 1932. She also appeared at the Berlin State Opera . In 1939 she said goodbye to the festival in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome as Carmen from the stage.

Besanzoni and the pianist Arthur Rubinstein fell in love with each other in 1918. Besanzoni married the Brazilian industrialist Henrique Lage (1881–1941) in 1925. From then on she lived in Rio de Janeiro in an upper-class property that is now in the now public Parque Lage . With the support of her husband, she founded the Sociedade do Teatro Lírico Brasileiro in 1936 and had a great influence on musical life in Brazil.

After the end of the war, she returned to Italy in 1951 and worked as a music teacher in Rome. She married again in 1956.

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  1. ^ The romanticism of the Architecture at the foot of the Corcovado , at thearchitecturelover, January 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Besanzoni, Gabriella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1962
Place of death Rome