Ettore Bastianini |

Ettore Bastiani

An haife shi a Siena, yayi karatu tare da Gaetano Vanni. Ya fara aikinsa na waƙa a matsayin bass, inda ya fara halarta a cikin 1945 a Ravenna a matsayin Collin (Puccini's La bohème). Shekaru shida ya yi sassan bass: Don Basilio a cikin Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Sparafucile a Verdi's Rigoletto, Timur a cikin Turandot na Puccini da sauransu. Tun 1948 yana yin wasan kwaikwayo a La Scala.

A cikin 1952, Bastianini ya yi wasa a karon farko a matsayin baritone a ɓangaren Germont (Bologna). Tun 1952, ya sau da yawa yi a Florentine Musical May Festival a matsayin Rasha repertoire (Tomsky, Yeletsky, Mazepa, Andrey Bolkonsky). A 1953 ya fara halarta a karon a Metropolitan Opera a matsayin Germont. Ya yi a La Scala (1954) wani ɓangare na Eugene Onegin, a cikin 1958 ya yi tare da Callas a cikin Bellini's The Pirate. Daga 1962 ya rera a Covent Garden, ya kuma rera a Salzburg Festival, a cikin Arena di Verona.

Masu sukar sun kira muryar mawaƙin "mai zafi", "muryar tagulla da karammiski" - mai haske, mai ɗanɗano mai ɗanɗano, mai daɗi a cikin rajista na sama, mai kauri kuma mai wadatar basses.

Bastianini ya kasance ƙwararren ɗan wasa na ban mamaki na Verdi - Count di Luna ("Il Trovatore"), Renato ("Un ballo in maschera", Don Carlos ("Force of Destiny"), Rodrigo ("Don Carlos"). Daga cikin jam'iyyun akwai Figaro, Barnabas a Ponchielli's Gioconda, Gerard a Giordano's Andre Chenier, Escamillo da sauransu, wanda Bastianini ya yi, shi ne bangaren Rodrigo a dandalin Opera na Metropolitan.

Ettore Bastianini yana ɗaya daga cikin fitattun mawaƙa a tsakiyar karni na XNUMX. Rikodin sun hada da Figaro (shugaba Erede, Decca), Rodrigo (shugabanni Karajan, Deutsche Grammophon), Gerard (shugaba Gavazzeni, Decca).