Pasquale Brignoli
Pasquale Brignoli , also Pasqualino Brignoli (* 1824 in Naples , † October 30, 1884 in New York City ) was an Italian opera singer ( tenor ) and composer .
Life
Brignoli had piano lessons in his youth and is said to have composed an opera when he was fifteen. It was only at the age of 21 that he completed solid vocal training in Naples. Around 1850 he began his musical career as a concert singer. In 1854 he made his debut at the Paris Opera in Gioacchino Rossini's opera Moses in Egypt . At the same time he completed his training at the Conservatoire de Paris .
In 1855 he came to North America with Max Strakosch , where he established himself as a successful opera tenor at the New York Academy of Music . He made his debut here as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (1855) and sang Manrico in the American premiere of Il trovatore (1855). He also worked here on the American premieres of La traviata (1856) I vespri siciliani (1859) and Un ballo in maschera (1861), at the Philadelphia Academy of Music also on the premieres of Luigi Arditis La Spia (1855) and Betly ( 1861) with. In Boston in 1855 he sang Gennaro in the opera Lucrezia Borgia .
In addition, Brignoli appeared on concert tours as a partner of singers such as Adelina Patti (1859), Anna de La Grange , Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa , Christine Nilsson and Therese Tietjens . In 1864, 1865 and 1866 he went on a concert tour to Europe. In the 1870s he married the singer Sallie Isabella McCullough , with whom he ran his own opera company. In 1881 he performed with Anna Abbot's traveling opera company.
Brignoli emerged as a composer with songs and orchestral pieces such as The sailor's dream (premiered in Boston in 1868) and The Crossing of the Danube . Despite his significant income, he died impoverished in New York. A specially composed funeral march was played at his funeral, and the pallbearers included several opera singers as well as the conductor and composer Max Maretzek .
Student (selection)
literature
- KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, first volume A – L, Sp. 374, ISBN 3-907820-70-3
Web links
- Pasquale Brignoli at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Pasquale Brignoli at picturehistory.com
- Brooklyn Philharmonic - Pasquale Brignoli
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brignoli, Pasquale |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brignoli, Pasqualino |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian opera singer (tenor) and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1884 |
| Place of death | New York City |