Giannina Arangi-Lombardi

Giannina Arangi-Lombardi (born June 20, 1891 in Marigliano , † July 9, 1951 in Milan ) was an Italian opera singer ( soprano ) of the 1920s and 1930s, who sang especially Italian opera.

Life

education

Born in Naples, she first studied piano at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples , then singing with Benjamin Carelli. Carelli first trained Arangi-Lombardi as a mezzo-soprano . In 1920 she made her debut at the Teatro Costanzi at the age of thirty. She sang Lola in Cavalleria rusticana . A few years later she switched to soprano with Adelina Stehle.

Career

In 1923 she sang the mezzo repertoire in Italian theaters and was so successful that records were made. In 1921 she sang Amneris to Aida sung by Fidelia Campigna at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan , the Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde with Maria Wroblewska and Icilio Calleja and shortly afterwards at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in Francesca da Rimini with Lina Scavizzi .

At the Teatro Reggio in Parma she was successful as La Cieca in La Gioconda ( Irene Minghini Cattaneo played Laura) and began to sing roles of the intermediate subject - such as Venus in Tannhäuser and Elena in Mefistofele . Thus they discovered that she felt better in the higher elevations and studied with Adelina Stehle, the Nannetta in the world premiere of Falstaff , to the soprano.

As a soprano she made her debut at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome, again in Cavalleria Rusticana, but now in the role of Santuzza. In the first year she retained some of her old roles, such as Elena in Mefistofele and the high priestess in La vestale (under Vitale, with Maria Carena, Bassi, Morelli and Pasero). In 1926 she came to La Scala in Milan , where she caused a sensation as Aida and Gioconda. The next year she sang Santuzza under Arturo Toscanini and Leonora in Il trovatore under Panizza.

In the summer of 1926 she was at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires , but seems to have only sung the Gioconda there (with Buades, Bertana, Lauri-Volpi, Franci and Pasero). In 1929 she had such success as Aida under Toscanini at Scala that she was selected by him for a guest performance at Scala in Berlin. She sang Aida with Pertile at the Berliner Festspiele and in 'Il trovatore' with Giacomo Lauri-Volpi . She opened the Scala season 1929/30 as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . She sang in the Italian premiere of Ariadne auf Naxos and in the world premiere of an opera Grazia by Michetti. She also appeared repeatedly in the Verona Arena , toured in Genoa, Cairo, Lisbon, Naples and Rio de Janeiro and made a major tour of Australia. Only in North America has she never sung.

In the summer of 1935 she sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival (under Bruno Walter , with Luise Helletsgruber , Lotte Schöne , Dino Borgioli , Ezio Pinza , Virgilio Lazzari and List). She sang until 1938, most recently in Palermo in I Vespri Siciliani.

After she left the stage, she first taught in Milan, where her students also included the later world-famous Mozart soprano Maria Stader . She also taught in Ankara for several years before returning to Milan, where she died on July 9, 1951.

Recordings

Her first records as a mezzo-soprano were released by La Fonografia Nationale . In addition to arias, she also sang duets with the tenors Carmelo Alabiso and Giuseppe Krismer . Her first soprano records - she then sang exclusively for Columbia Records - were still recorded acoustically, but the entire repertoire was later recorded again electrically in better quality. Only her partner in the Norma duet was first Lina Lanza and later Ebe Stignati . The long list of her electrical recordings brings the great Arangi-Lombardi.

Here she sang her famous Aïda, Gioconda and Santuzza in complete recordings of the operas, as well as Elena in “Mefistofele”, the latter even twice, as a complete Classical Walpurgis Night had already been recorded before the complete recording of the opera. In addition to many arias, she sang duets and ensembles with Stignani, Merli, Molinari and Galeffi.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography of Giannina Arangi-Lombardi at www.cantabile-subito.de