Word: boito
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before Pinza got out of the army at 27, he won a chance to sing the Count des Grieux in Manon in Rome. After that, his career picked up a dizzying momentum. Toscanini invited him to sing at La Scala, where he scored such a hit in Boito's Nerone that in 1926 Metropolitan Opera Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed...
...still not solved: as one of four Boris bassos, he does not expect to get many chances to sing it. He now wants to try for a Don Giovanni at the Met, and then devote himself to his scheme of monopolizing a role that nobody else specializes in: Boito's version of the Faust legend, Mefistofele...
Among the musical versions of the Faust legend (including the operas of Gounod, Boito, and Busoni), Berlioz' Damnation of Faust is unique. Subtitled Dramatic Legend, it was not intended for actual stage presentation; while it has Dramatis Personae, it lacks the sequential development of plot and character that opera usually offers. Instead, it only pictures the main characters and delineates their relationships...
...most of the popular stops on the grand-opera highway, e.g., Carmen, Aïda, La Bohème. But San Francisco takes peculiar pride in traveling the byways as well. For its opener last week, San Francisco characteristically chose a seldom-heard version of the Faust legend, Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele, instead of Gounod's war horse, Faust...