Mario Del Monaco
I wish to thank Daniele Godor for the 1966 picture and program. Del Monaco surely did not overwork himself during that concert.
Olivero on Mario Del Monaco:
I wish to thank Imogen Norcroft for the recording (Walküre). I wish to thank Thomas Silverbörg for the recordings (Giulietta e Romeo, Madama Butterfly).
This is just amazing. He sings the last part of Esultate from "dopo l'armi lo vinse" to the end without a breath. Who else has done it?!!!! Renato Gigli, answer sent by Imogen Norcroft.
Not for the lover of the sweet effeminate sound à la Bocelli. This website is very attractive. It justly recommends the book on Del Monaco by Elisabetta Romagnolo. This book has been badly reviewed for no good reason at all by Mr. Van den Bulck on the deceased Fasolt website. The only discrepancy that I can find on the site is that it states one more time that Del Monaco sang Otello more than 400 times, while the chronology in the book does not support this statement. After checking with the webmaster of the site, the number of 427 was given by Del Monaco during an interview, while regretting he could not achieve a total of 500 Otellos on stage. The book reports only on available documentation supporting his appearances on stage as Otello. I believe the book to be closer to the truth than the over 400 Otellos supposedly sung by Del Monaco. Bad legend never dies.
I would like to thank Thomas Silverbörg for the recordings.
La voce del padrone, Milano 1948-08-06 0BA 6645 M'hai rapito (D'Anzi) (film "L'uomo dal guanto grigio") HN 2377 0BA 6646 Cercar non giova (D'Anzi) (film "L'uomo dal guanto grigio") HN 2377 0BA 6647 Che bella fiesta (D'Anzi) (film "L'uomo dal guanto grigio") HN 2378 0BA 6648 Malinconia d'amore (D'Anzi) (film "L'uomo dal guanto grigio") HN 2378 La voce del padrone, Milano 1948-11-22 2BA 6715 Andrea Chénier (Giordano): Un dì all'azzurro spazio DB 11320 0BA 6716 L'Africaine (Meyerbeer): O paradiso DA 11305 0BA 6717 Turandot (Puccini): Nessun dorma DA 11305 2BA 6718 Lohengrin (Wagner): Da voi lontan DB 11320 I wish to thank Christian Torrent for the discography and the relative pictures. Lucia di Lammermoor (Normanno/Arturo) – Sant'Angelo in Lizzola, Comunale, 1932 Don Pasquale – Ancona, 1932 Cavalleria rusticana – Cagli, Comunale, 20 March 1940 Madama Butterfly – Milano, Puccini, 31 December 1940 La traviata – Milano, Puccini 6 January 1941 Tosca – Palermo, Biondo, 23 May 1941 La bohème – Catania, Bellini, 13 June 1941 Lucia di Lammermoor – Catanzaro, Carro di Tespi, 5 October 1941 Zazà – Como, Sociale, 10 February 1942 Ariodante – Parma, Regio, 22 November 1942 L'amico Fritz – Livorno, Goldoni, 6 March 1943 Manon Lescaut – Pisa, Verdi, 3 April 1943 Rigoletto – Padova, Verdi, 27 January 1945 Un ballo in maschera – Venezia, La Fenice, 25 April 1945 La Gioconda – Venezia, Campo Sant' Angelo, 17 July 1945 Turandot – Gradisca d'Isonzo, Estivo dei Tremila, 4 August 1945 Andrea Chénier – Valdagno, del Popolo, 6 October 1945 Aida – Trieste, Verdi, 2 February 1946 Pagliacci – London, Covent Garden, 1 October 1946 Esmeralda – Livorno, Goldoni, 28 November 1946 Carmen – Napoli, San Carlo, 15 February 1947 Il tabarro – Roma, dell'Opera, 29 March 1947 La fanciulla del West – Rio de Janeiro, Municipal, 15 August 1947 Mefistofele – S. Paulo, Municipal, 17 September 1947 Il trovatore – S. Paulo, Municipal, 1 October 1947 Fedora – Roma, dell'Opera, 13 December 1947 La forza del destino – Buenos Aires, Colón, 3 June 1949 Il Guarany – Rio de Janeiro, Municipal, 7 September 1949 Adriana Lecouvreur – Lisboa, S. Carlos, 31 March 1950 Otello – Buenos Aires, Colón, 21 July 1950 La Wally – Milano, Scala, 7 December 1953 Norma – Roma, RAI, 29 June 1955 Samson et Dalila – Nice, Opéra, 7 April 1956 Ernani – New York, Met, 23 November 1956 Lohengrin – Milano, Scala, 11 December 1957 Francesca da Rimini – Milano, Scala, 21 May 1959 Les Troyens – Milano, Scala, 27 May 1960 Die Walküre – Stuttgart, Opernhaus, 20 March 1966 Stiffelio – Napoli, San Carlo, 27 December 1972 According to the different web pages on Del Monaco, he is supposed to have sung Otello over 400 times, but according to the chronology in the book by Elisabetta Romagnolo on him, it was actually 218 times. Below, here is the list of Otello's appearances found in Romagnolo's book.1950 Buenos Aires, 21 July (4) 1950 Rio de Janeiro, 24 August (2) 1950 S. Paulo, 30 August (2) 1951 Catania, 5 March (3) 1951 Roma, 26 April (4) 1951 La Havana, 17 May (2) 1951 Mexico, 20 June (2) 1951 Busetto, 24 August (2) 1951 Treviso, 9 October (2) 1952 New York, 15 February (1) 1953 Pittsburgh, 19 March (2) 1953 Hartford, 27 March (2) 1953 San Antonio, May (2) 1954 Milano, 7 January (6) 1954 Monte Carlo, 31 January (2) 1954 Reggio Emilia, 11 February (2) 1954 Paris, 20 February (2) 1954 Roma, 25 March (5) 1954 Torino, 6 May (3) 1954 Milano, 6 September (1) 1954 Rio de Janeiro, 5 October (2) 1955 New York, 31 January (5) 1955 Firenze, 11 June (3) 1955 Napoli 2 July (1) 1955 Verona, 20 July (1) 1955 Barcelona, 6 November (3) 1956 Nice, 10 March (1) 1956 Marseille, 22 March (1) 1956 Nice, 10 April (Act 4 only) 1956 Madrid, 12 May (2) 1956 San Sebastian, 24 May (1) 1956 Bilbao, 28 May (1) 1956 Stuttgart, 14 June (2) 1956 Lyon, 4 July (2) 1957 Napoli, 16 February (3) 1957 Wien, 15 April (7) 1957 Zürich, 10 May (1) 1957 Palermo, 7 September (2) 1957 Chicago, 11 October (3) 1958 New York 27 February (5) 1958 Baltimore, 25 March (1) 1958 Boston, 18 April (1) 1958 Cleveland, 26 April (1) 1958 Milano, 30 September (1) 1958 New York, 15 November (5) 1959 Tokyo, 4 February (4) 1959 Osaka, 2 March (1) 1959 Stuttgart, 17 April (1) 1959 San Francisco, 16 October (2) 1959 Los Angeles, 25 October (1) 1959 San Diego, 5 November (1) 1959 Milano, 7 December (7) 1960 Napoli, 21 January (4) 1960 Venezia, 6 August (1) 1960 Roma, 26 December (4) 1962 Palermo, 11 January (2) 1962 Catania, 6 February (2) 1962 London, 30 June (4) 1962 Philadelphia, 9 November (2) 1962 Hartford, 19 November (1) 1962 Dallas, 30 November (2) 1963 Palma di Maiorca (Act 4 only) 1964 Lucca, 14 September (2) 1964 Philadelphia, 13 October (1) 1964 Bologna, 20 December (3) 1965 Nice, 28 January (2) 1965 Vichy, 19 August (2) 1966 Montréal, 21 June (2) 1966 Venezia, 31 July (2) 1967 Macerata, 3 August (2) 1967 Bilbao, 5 September (1) 1967 Oviedo, 18 September (1) 1967 Stuttgart, 11 October (2) 1968 Bari, 18 January (2) 1968 Lecce, 22 March (2) 1968 Jesi, 22 September (2) 1968 Roma, 27 November (6) 1969 Cagliari, 12 January (3) 1969 Napoli, 12 February (2) 1969 Stuttgart, 27 February (2) 1969 Budapest, 19 March (2) 1969 Wiesbaden, 31 May (1) 1969 Rio de Janeiro, 2 September (2) 1969 S. Paulo, 16 September (2) 1970 Belgrade, 11 March (2) 1971 Mantova, 21 January (2) 1971 Brescia, 30 January (3) 1971 Cremona, 24 February (2) 1971 Budapest, 1 April (2) 1971 Viareggio, 17 June (2) 1971 Napoli, 15 July (3) 1971 Lignano, 31 July (2) 1972 Las Palmas, 28 February (2) 1972 Ascoli Piceno, 16 June (1) 1972 Napoli, 1 July (1) 1972 Bruxelles, 4 November (5) Reference: André Segond /Daniel Sibille, Mario Del Monaco ou un ténor de légende, JML, Lyon 1981 Reference: Mario Del Monaco, La mia vita e i miei successi, Rusconi, Milano 1982 Reference: Elisabetta Romagnolo, Mario Del Monaco, Monumentum aere perennius, Azzali 2002. Reference: Osvaldo Alemanno, Mario Del Monaco, Matteo Editore, Treviso, 1988 |
