Ezio Pinza

Ezio Pinza was an Italian opera singer. A bass with a rich, smooth and sonorous voice, he spentseasons at New Yorks Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 performances of 50 operas. At the San Francisco Opera, Pinza sangroles duringseasons from 1927 to 1948. Pinza also sang to great acclaim at La Scala, Milan and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.

Pinza, christened Fortunio Pinza, was born in modest circumstances in Rome in 1892 and grew up on Italys east coast, in the ancient city of Ravenna. He studied singing at Bolognas Conservatorio Martini, making his operatic debut in 1914, as Oroveso in Norma at Cremona.

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