The Heinz Historical Center in Pittsburgh, PA will present a program on the Pinza family’s artistic impact. Ezio Pinza was an Italian-born opera singer who came to the US in the 1920s to perform on Broadway. While in the US Pinza performed over 20 seasons at Metropolitan Opera, with appearances at San Francisco Opera, and more. Pinza also sang at {…}
Italian bass Ezio Pinza, born on May 18, 1892, never learned to read music. But that didn’t stop him from enjoying a massively successful career. The bass grew up in Ravenna and would study in Bologna. He made his Operatic debut in 1914 at Cremona. After four years of Military service during World War I, he made his La Scala {…}
Yesterday we took a look at two titanic sopranos that shared a birthday. Today, May 18, we turn our attention to two important basses that were also born on the same day. Ezio Pinza’s birth came on this day in 1892 while Boris Christoff’s came in 1914. Both artists led rather different careers with the former finishing out his career {…}