Word: justino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Justino de Paz Balmaseda Madrid...
...Pamir a, the doomed daughter of the governor of Corinth, Sills successfully re-established her claim as the most radiant and musical of prima donnas. The dilemmas that Pamira finds herself in would try even Aida, and Sills rose to them all. Briefly, Pamira loves Maometto (Bass Justino Diaz), the leader of the attacking Turks. Her father wants her to marry the Greek warrior Neocle (Mezzo Verrett...
...enough like a man to make the impersonation halfway acceptable. Hers is not a warm voice, but it is clear and brilliant. Dramatic coloratura lines spun out in the third act's "Non temer" brought Verrett a three-minute ovation of her own. As Maometto, the tall, athletic Justino Diaz not only displayed one of the richest, manliest basses around, but actually made this terrible Turk a figure of dignity and believable emotion...
...Justino Diaz, Sills's leading man, has some rarely combined talents for a basso; the lightness and flexibility that coloratura singing demands, and a natural sound so powerful that it cuts through the orchestra as clearly as the shriller upper voices. Like Sills, he does a lot in this production with a boring character. The passion he shows towards Pamira, especially in their love scene, is about as much as they ever allow on the Met stage...
...Justino Diaz, her leading man in this opera, confirmed all the reasons she's been giving her interviewers lately about the origin of these offers tailored for refusal. "It could have been that they wanted her to say no; then they could have said. 'Well, we invited her but she refused.' It could have been a clash of personalities: maybe so-and-so didn't like her that much. Maybe they considered that she really was not that well known to deserve a new production in a really big role." He paused, and then added reflectively. "This happens...