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4 unusual facts about Ettore Bastianini


Ettore Bastianini

A.Ponchielli: La Gioconda with Cerquetti (her only complete opera recording in studio), Simionato, del Monaco, Siepi.

On January 28, 1945, in a Siena concert, he sang the bass arias "Vecchia zimarra" from Puccini's La bohème and "La Calunnia" from Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Also noteworthy is a 1955 television appearance (published on DVD in 2006), on "Opera Cameos," of excerpts from La traviata, with the young Beverly Sills and Paul Knowles.

He later returned to the Met in spring 1960 in several roles, including Don Carlo di Vargas in La forza del destino (which he had recorded under Molinari-Pradelli in 1956 for Decca Records, followed a few years later by a portrayal of the villain Barnabas in La Gioconda under Gavazzeni on the same label).



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