Ezio Pinza
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Ezio Fortunato Pinza was an Italian opera singer. Pinza possessed a rich, smooth and sonorous voice, with a flexibility unusual for a bass. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appear
Pinza, c. 1949
Ezio Pinza (left) jokes with comedian Jimmy Durante as Pinza leaves his imprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, 1953.
The grave of Ezio Pinza at Putnam Cemetery, in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Ezio Pinza as Mefistofele, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1933-1934.
Bruno Walter
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Bruno Walter was a German-born conductor, pianist, and composer. Born in Berlin, he left Nazi Germany in 1933, was naturalised as a French citizen in 1938, and settled in the United States in 1939. He
Ezio Pinza
…the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1930–1939, and was invited to sing at the Salzburg Festival in 1934–1937 by the celebrated German conductor Bruno Walter. Pinza sang once again under the baton of Toscanini in 1935, this time with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, as the bass soloist in performances…
Walter, Vienna, 1912
Bruno Walter, 1937
The family grave in 1998.
Bruno Walter conducting (photo with dedication from 1952)