His father, however, recognizing the beauty of his natural voice, encouraged him to study at the local conservatory and go on to the Liceo Musicale in Bologna.
He is probably best remembered by today’s audiences, through the original cast recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific, as the creator of the role of Emile de Becque (“Some Enchanted Evening”) for which he was awarded the 1950 Tony® for Best Actor.įortunato Ezio Pinza, his parents’ seventh child and their first to survive, grew up in Ravenna and intended at first to be a civil engineer. Stamford, CT, USA, May 9, 1957) was one of the most brilliant international opera stars of the mid-twentierth century.
Handsome, velvet-voiced, and with a magnetic personality, Italian basso cantante Ezio Pinza ( b.
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