Giannina Arangi-Lombardi

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

Training

Born Neaplitanerin studied at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples first piano, then singing with Beniamino Carelli. Carelli made ​​Arangi Lombardi first as a mezzo- soprano. In 1920 she made ​​her debut at the age of thirty years at the Teatro Costanzi. She sang the Lola in Cavalleria rusticana. When Adelina Stehle few years later they completed the change into a soprano.

Career

In 1923 she sang the mezzo repertoire of the Italian theaters, and was so successful that recordings were made. So she sang at the Teatro Dal Verme in 1921 in Milan Amneris to the Aida sung by Fidelia Campigna, Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde with Maria Wroblewska and Icilio Calleja and shortly thereafter at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in Francesca da Rimini together 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 rolling the intermediate compartment - as Venus in Tannhäuser and Elena in Mefistofele - to sing. Thus they discovered that they felt better in the higher elevations and studied with Adelina Stehle, who Nannetta in the world premiere of Falstaff, the soprano has to offer.

But when she made her debut at the Teatro Costanzi soprano in Rome, again in " Cavalleria Rusticana ", now in the role of Santuzza. In the first year, they still retained some of their old roles as Elena in " Mefistofele " and the High Priestess in La vestal ( under Vitale, with Maria Carena, Bassi, Morelli and Pasero ). In 1926 she came to La Scala, where she attracted as Aida and Gioconda stir. The next year, she sang the Santuzza under Arturo Toscanini and Leonora in Il Trovatore under Panizza.

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

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

After her farewell to the stage, she taught in Milan, where their pupils who later became world-famous Mozart soprano Maria Stader belonged. She also taught for several years in Ankara, before she returned to Milan, where she died on July 9, 1951.

Recordings

Your first records as a mezzo- soprano published by La Fonografia Nationale. In addition to arias she sang duets with tenors Alabiso Carmelo and Giuseppe Krismer. Your first soprano plates - they then sang exclusively for Columbia Records - were recorded acoustically, the whole repertoire, however, was taken up again later electrically in better quality. Only was her partner in Norma duet first Lina Lanza and later levels Stignati. The long list of their electrical recordings brings the great Arangi Lombardi.

Here she sang in complete recordings of the operas her famous Aïda, Gioconda and Santuzza, and Elena in " Mefistofele ", the latter even twice since before the complete recording of the opera already a full Classical Walpurgis Night was recorded. Besides many arias she sang duets and ensemble with Stignani, Merli, Molinari and Galeffi.

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