Georges Thill
Andò a Napoli, a studiare con Fernando De Lucia. La sua voce pastosa, rara eccezione fra le altre della sua terra, ottenne successo in Italia, dove cantò Turandot, Carmen, Tosca ed altro. Ma la nuova impostazione e la nuova tecnica di fonazione – in rapporto alla lingua diversa – finirono col comprometterla irreparabilmente. Chi scrive lo ascoltò negli Ugonotti a l'Opéra di Parigi, e ritrovò la sua voce del tutto trasformata: una voce, per così dire, diventata bicipite, o addirittura acefala. Tale era l'impressione che se ne riceveva.
Thaïs – Paris, Opéra, 24 February 1924 Parsifal (Knappe) – Paris, Opéra, 1924 Monna Vanna (Borso) – Paris, Opéra, 1924 Zauberflöte (Geharnischter) – Paris, Opéra, 1924 Rigoletto (Borsa) – Paris, Opéra, 1924 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Zorn) – Paris, Opéra, 1924 Aida (Messaggero) – Paris, Opéra, 1924 Faust – Bécon-les-Bruyères, Municipal, August 1924 Rigoletto (Duca) – Paris, Opéra, 25 September 1924 Nerto (composer: Widor) – Paris, Opéra, 23 October 1924 L'Arlequin (composer: d'Olonne, role: Don Sanche) – Paris, Opéra, 22 December 1924 Le triomphe de l'amour (composer: Lully) – Paris, Opéra, 6 January 1925 Fleur de pêcher (composer: Simon) – Paris, Opéra, 24 February 1925 Padmâvatî (composer: Roussel, role: Badal) – Paris, Opéra, 1925 Hérodiade – Paris, Opéra, 3 July 1925 Aida (Radames) – Paris, Opéra, 20 July 1925 Werther – Nîmes, Municipal, 15 October 1925 Le jardin du paradis (composer: Bruneau) – Paris, Opéra, 13 November 1925 Brocéliande (composer: Bloch) – Paris, Opéra, 23 November 1925 Pagliacci – Paris, Opéra, 8 January 1926 Alceste – Paris, Opéra, 8 February 1926 Roméo et Juliette – Paris, Opéra, 3 May 1926 Manon (St. Sulpice act only) – Paris, Opéra, 1 June 1926 Lohengrin – Paris, Opéra, 28 August 1926 La damnation de Faust – Amiens, Municipal, 14 December 1926 La traviata – Paris, Opéra, 24 December 1926 Naïla (composer: Gaubert) – Paris, Opéra, 6 April 1927 Le miracle (composer: Hüe) – Paris, Opéra, 15 November 1927 La tour de feu (composer: Lazzari) – Paris, Opéra, 15 January 1928 Turandot – Paris, Opéra, 29 March 1928 Carmen – Paris, Opéra-Comique, 15 May 1928 Samson et Dalila – Paris, Opéra, 26 May 1928 Marouf – Paris, Opéra, 21 June 1928 Parsifal (Parsifal) – Monte-Carlo, Garnier, 2 February 1929 Martha – Monte-Carlo, Garnier, 27 March 1929 La croisade des dames (composer: Schubert/Gunsbourg) – Monte Carlo, Garnier, 1 April 1929 Tosca – Monte-Carlo, Garnier, 9 April 1929 Les Troyens – Paris, Opéra, 2 May 1929 Andrea Chénier – Buenos Aires, Colón, 31 July 1929 Guillaume Tell – Paris, Opéra, 21 October 1929 La fanciulla del West – Milano, Scala, 7 February 1930 Satan (composer: Gunsbourg) – Monte-Carlo, Garnier, 25 March 1930 Tannhäuser – Monte-Carlo, Garnier, 5 April 1930 Don Carlos – Buenos Aires, Colón, 25 May 1930 Sadko – Buenos Aires, Colón, 1 july 1930 Mefistofele – Buenos Aires, Colón, 26 September 1930 Manon – Buenos Aires, Colón, 5 June 1931 Fra Gherardo (composer: Pizzetti) – Buenos Aires, Colón, 17 July 1931 Nazdah (composer: Palma) – Buenos Aires, Colón, 14 August 1931 Esclarmonde – Paris, Opéra, 11 November 1931 Le prophète – Monte-Carlo, Garnier, 26 January 1932 Lakmé – New York, MET, 19 February 1932 La valse de Vienne – Monte-Carlo, Garnier, 23 February 1933 Vercingétorix (composer: Canteloube) – Paris, Opéra, 22 May 1933 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Stolzing) – Paris, Opéra, 8 November 1933 La belle Hélène – Monte-Carlo, Garnier, 17 February 1934 Rolande et le mauvais garçon (composer: Rabaud) – Paris, Opéra, 22 May 1934 Les huguenots – Paris, Opéra, 20 March 1936 Il Guarany – Rio de Janeiro, Municipal, 20 August 1936 Ariane (composer: Massenet) – Paris, Opéra, 22 February 1937 La Juive (excerpts) – Paris, Chaillot, 22 October 1945 I would like to thank Thomas Silverbörg for the recording (Samson). Reference: L'avant scène opéra, opérette : L'opéra français, Georges Thill, mensuel hors série September 1984 Reference: Roland Mancini: "Georges Thill", Monstres sacrés, Sodal, Paris, 1966 Reference: Art Lyrique Français Reference: André Segond: "Georges Thill, ou l'age d'or de l'opéra", Editions Jacques-Marie Lafont, Lyon, 1980 Reference: André Segond- "Album Georges Thill", Edisud, Aix-en-Provence, 1984 |
