Enzio pinza biography

Italian opera singer (–)

Ezio Fortunato Pinza (May 18, &#;&#; May 9, ) was an Italian opera singer. Pinza possessed a rich, smooth and sonorous voice, with a flexibility unusual for a bass.

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Ezio pinza some enchanted evening

Ezio Pinza was an Italian-born operatic bass and actor.

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Ezio Pinza was born on May 18, in Rome, Lazio, Italy as Fortunato Pinza.

Handsome, velvet-voiced, and with a magnetic personality, Italian basso cantante Ezio Pinza (b.

He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than performances of 50 operas. At the San Francisco Opera, Pinza sang 26 roles during 20 seasons from to Pinza also sang to great acclaim at La Scala, Milan, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.

After retiring from the Metropolitan Opera in , Pinza enjoyed a fresh career on Broadway in musical theatre, most notably in South Pacific, in which he created the role of Emile de Becque. He was less successful in his appearances in Hollywood films.

Biography

Early years

Ezio Fortunato Pinza^[2] was born in modest circumstances in Rome in The seventh child born to his parents, he was the first to live past infancy.^[3] Pinza grew up on Italy's east coast, in the anc