Beniamino Gigli (pronounced[benjaˈmiːno ˈdʒiʎʎi]; March 20, 1890 – November 30, 1957) was an Italian operasinger. The most famous tenor of his generation, he was renowned internationally for the great beauty of his voice and the soundness of his vocal technique. Music critics sometimes took him to task, however, for what was perceived to be the over-emotionalism of his interpretations. Nevertheless, such was Gigli's talent, he is considered to be one of the very finest tenors in the recorded history of music.
Biography
Gigli was born in Recanati, in the Marche, the son of a shoemaker who loved opera. They did not, however, view music as a secure career. Beniamino's brother Lorenzo became a famous Italian painter.
In 1914, he won first prize in an international singing competition in Parma. His operatic debut came on October 15, 1914, when he played Enzo in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda in Rovigo, following which he was in great demand.
In July 1888 the Milanese music publisher Edoardo Sonzogno announced a competition open to all young Italian composers who had not yet had an opera performed on stage. They were invited to submit a one-act opera, which would be judged by a jury of five prominent Italian critics and composers. The best three would be staged in Rome at Sonzogno's expense.
Mascagni heard about the competition only two months before the closing date and asked his friend Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, a poet and professor of literature at the Italian Royal Naval Academy in Livorno, to provide a libretto. Targioni-Tozzetti chose Cavalleria rusticana, a popular short story (and play) by Giovanni Verga, as the basis for the opera. He and his colleague Guido Menasci set about composing the libretto, sending it to Mascagni in fragments, sometimes only a few verses at a time on the back of a postcard. The opera was finally submitted on the last day that entries would be accepted. In all, 73 operas were submitted, and on 5 March 1890, the judges selected the final three: Niccola Spinelli's Labilia, Vincenzo Ferroni's Rudello, and Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana.
Initially, the Italian television network RAI expressed interest in recording the live opening night double-bill of Franco Zeffirelli's stage productions of Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci at the Teatro alla Scala. However, the director wanted to film the operas like movies instead of live stage productions. Over the course of two days, he filmed both operas on the stage of La Scala without an audience and in segments of ten minutes or less. He later added pick-up shots at a film studio in Milan. He also filmed some on location in Vizzini, Sicily for greater authenticity.
Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana - Tu qui, Santuzza? - Beniamino Gigli, Lina Bruna-Rasa - Mascagni
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana
Tu qui, Santuzza? ... Bada, Santuzza, schiavo non sono ... Fior di giaggiolo .... Oh! Turiddu... È passato Alfio? ... Ah! lo vedi, che hai tu detto? .... No, no, Turiddu, rimani ancora
Turiddu - Beniamino Gigli
Santuzza - Lina Bruna-Rasa
Lola - Maria Marcucci
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
Pietro Mascagni, coductor
HMV, 1940
published: 01 Apr 2018
Tu qui, Santuzza?, "Cavalleria rusticana"
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Tu qui, Santuzza?, "Cavalleria rusticana" · Beniamino Gigli, Dosolina Giannini
Beniamino Gigli Arie d'Opera e canzoni napoletane
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published: 11 Dec 2014
Antonio Melandri & Lina Bruna Rasa "Tu qui, Santuzza" Cavalleria Rusticana
Antonio Melandri & Lina Bruna Rasa sing "Tu qui, Santuzza"
Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Maria Meloni (Lola)
Orchestra of the Opera Italiana D'Olanda
Dutch Royal Theatre, The Hague, Holland
conducted by the Composer
PIETRO MASCAGNI
07.November 1938
published: 23 Mar 2018
Gianfranco Cecchele & Fiorenza Cossotto "Tu qui, Santuzza" Cavalleria Rusticana
Gianfranco Cecchele & Fiorenza Cossotto sing
"Tu qui, Santuzza"
from Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Adriana Martino (Lola)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Herbert von Karajan, Conductor
published: 01 Apr 2018
Elena Obraztsova,Luis Lima- Tu qui Santuzza-Prt 1 Cavalleria Rusticana
Elena Obraztsova and Luis Lima singing duet between Santuzza and Turiddu: "Tu qui Santuzza" from "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Mascagni.
PART 2 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGMplTq99A
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana
Tu qui, Santuzza? ... Bada, Santuzza, schiavo non sono ... Fior di giaggiolo .... Oh! Turiddu... È passato Alfio? ......
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana
Tu qui, Santuzza? ... Bada, Santuzza, schiavo non sono ... Fior di giaggiolo .... Oh! Turiddu... È passato Alfio? ... Ah! lo vedi, che hai tu detto? .... No, no, Turiddu, rimani ancora
Turiddu - Beniamino Gigli
Santuzza - Lina Bruna-Rasa
Lola - Maria Marcucci
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
Pietro Mascagni, coductor
HMV, 1940
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana
Tu qui, Santuzza? ... Bada, Santuzza, schiavo non sono ... Fior di giaggiolo .... Oh! Turiddu... È passato Alfio? ... Ah! lo vedi, che hai tu detto? .... No, no, Turiddu, rimani ancora
Turiddu - Beniamino Gigli
Santuzza - Lina Bruna-Rasa
Lola - Maria Marcucci
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
Pietro Mascagni, coductor
HMV, 1940
Provided to YouTube by YouTube CSV2DDEX
Tu qui, Santuzza?, "Cavalleria rusticana" · Beniamino Gigli, Dosolina Giannini
Beniamino Gigli Arie d'Opera e canzoni ...
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Tu qui, Santuzza?, "Cavalleria rusticana" · Beniamino Gigli, Dosolina Giannini
Beniamino Gigli Arie d'Opera e canzoni napoletane
℗ 2012 Saar srl under license to Pirames International Srl
Released on: 2012-05-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by YouTube CSV2DDEX
Tu qui, Santuzza?, "Cavalleria rusticana" · Beniamino Gigli, Dosolina Giannini
Beniamino Gigli Arie d'Opera e canzoni napoletane
℗ 2012 Saar srl under license to Pirames International Srl
Released on: 2012-05-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Antonio Melandri & Lina Bruna Rasa sing "Tu qui, Santuzza"
Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Maria Meloni (Lola)
Orchestra of the Opera Italiana D'Olanda...
Antonio Melandri & Lina Bruna Rasa sing "Tu qui, Santuzza"
Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Maria Meloni (Lola)
Orchestra of the Opera Italiana D'Olanda
Dutch Royal Theatre, The Hague, Holland
conducted by the Composer
PIETRO MASCAGNI
07.November 1938
Antonio Melandri & Lina Bruna Rasa sing "Tu qui, Santuzza"
Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Maria Meloni (Lola)
Orchestra of the Opera Italiana D'Olanda
Dutch Royal Theatre, The Hague, Holland
conducted by the Composer
PIETRO MASCAGNI
07.November 1938
Gianfranco Cecchele & Fiorenza Cossotto sing
"Tu qui, Santuzza"
from Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Adriana Martino (Lola)
Orchestra del Teatro alla ...
Gianfranco Cecchele & Fiorenza Cossotto sing
"Tu qui, Santuzza"
from Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Adriana Martino (Lola)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Herbert von Karajan, Conductor
Gianfranco Cecchele & Fiorenza Cossotto sing
"Tu qui, Santuzza"
from Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Adriana Martino (Lola)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Herbert von Karajan, Conductor
Elena Obraztsova and Luis Lima singing duet between Santuzza and Turiddu: "Tu qui Santuzza" from "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Mascagni.
PART 2 here:
http://www.y...
Elena Obraztsova and Luis Lima singing duet between Santuzza and Turiddu: "Tu qui Santuzza" from "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Mascagni.
PART 2 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGMplTq99A
Elena Obraztsova and Luis Lima singing duet between Santuzza and Turiddu: "Tu qui Santuzza" from "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Mascagni.
PART 2 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGMplTq99A
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana
Tu qui, Santuzza? ... Bada, Santuzza, schiavo non sono ... Fior di giaggiolo .... Oh! Turiddu... È passato Alfio? ... Ah! lo vedi, che hai tu detto? .... No, no, Turiddu, rimani ancora
Turiddu - Beniamino Gigli
Santuzza - Lina Bruna-Rasa
Lola - Maria Marcucci
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
Pietro Mascagni, coductor
HMV, 1940
Provided to YouTube by YouTube CSV2DDEX
Tu qui, Santuzza?, "Cavalleria rusticana" · Beniamino Gigli, Dosolina Giannini
Beniamino Gigli Arie d'Opera e canzoni napoletane
℗ 2012 Saar srl under license to Pirames International Srl
Released on: 2012-05-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Antonio Melandri & Lina Bruna Rasa sing "Tu qui, Santuzza"
Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Maria Meloni (Lola)
Orchestra of the Opera Italiana D'Olanda
Dutch Royal Theatre, The Hague, Holland
conducted by the Composer
PIETRO MASCAGNI
07.November 1938
Gianfranco Cecchele & Fiorenza Cossotto sing
"Tu qui, Santuzza"
from Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Adriana Martino (Lola)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Herbert von Karajan, Conductor
Elena Obraztsova and Luis Lima singing duet between Santuzza and Turiddu: "Tu qui Santuzza" from "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Mascagni.
PART 2 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGMplTq99A
Beniamino Gigli (pronounced[benjaˈmiːno ˈdʒiʎʎi]; March 20, 1890 – November 30, 1957) was an Italian operasinger. The most famous tenor of his generation, he was renowned internationally for the great beauty of his voice and the soundness of his vocal technique. Music critics sometimes took him to task, however, for what was perceived to be the over-emotionalism of his interpretations. Nevertheless, such was Gigli's talent, he is considered to be one of the very finest tenors in the recorded history of music.
Biography
Gigli was born in Recanati, in the Marche, the son of a shoemaker who loved opera. They did not, however, view music as a secure career. Beniamino's brother Lorenzo became a famous Italian painter.
In 1914, he won first prize in an international singing competition in Parma. His operatic debut came on October 15, 1914, when he played Enzo in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda in Rovigo, following which he was in great demand.
Che bella cosa na jurnata 'e sole, n'aria serena doppo na tempesta! Pe' ll'aria fresca pare gia' na festa... Che bella cosa na jurnata 'e sole. Ma n'atu sole cchiu' bello, oi ne'. 'o sole mio sta 'nfronte a te! o sole, o sole mio sta 'nfronte a te! sta 'nfronte a te! Lcene 'e llastre d'a fenesta toia; 'na lavannara canta e se ne vanta e pe' tramente torce, spanne e canta lcene 'e llastre d'a fenesta toia. Ma n'atu sole cchiu' bello, oi ne'. 'o sole mio sta 'nfronte a te! o sole, o sole mio sta 'nfronte a te! sta 'nfronte a te! Quanno fa notte e 'o sole se ne scenne, me vene quase 'na malincunia; sotto 'a fenesta toia restarria quanno fa notte e 'o sole se ne scenne. Ma n'atu sole cchiu' bello, oi ne'. 'o sole mio sta 'nfronte a te! o sole, o sole mio sta 'nfronte a te! sta 'nfronte a te!