{"id":2195,"date":"2024-03-20T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2025-03-20T20:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T19:28:19","slug":"beniamino-gigli-march-20th-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/2024\/03\/beniamino-gigli-march-20th-1890\/","title":{"rendered":"Beniamino Gigli, 20. M\u00e4rz 1890"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Beniamino Gigli, whose surname translated into English means Lilies has his birthday today being born in Recanati in 1890<\/span>[i]<\/span><\/sup><\/a>. Certainly his lirico-spinto voice was as perfect, sweet and beautiful as his namesake.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gigli\u2019s career took on super-stardom in the English speaking world, when he was hired by the Metropolitan Opera New York with a debut in Mefistofele<\/i> on the 26 November 1920.<\/span>[ii]<\/span><\/sup><\/a> He had the unenviable task of following in footsteps of Enrico Caruso after Caruso\u2019s untimely and sudden death. Comparisons were inevitable; but it didn\u2019t take long for the honey voiced Gigli to win over his audiences with his flexible, lyrically ringing voice and masterful implementation of mezzo voce.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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However, even before this, in 1918 he was discovered and eagerly signed up by HMV, later transferring to Victor records.<\/span>[iii]<\/span><\/sup><\/a> He went<\/span> on to become the best selling tenor of the electric 78 rpm disc of the post World War<\/span> I <\/span>era. His recordings received glowing reviews and achieved the equivalent honour of being constantly on the top selling charts of the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Apart from singing, Gigli appeared as an actor making over twenty films between 1935-1953. He even has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,<\/span>[iv]<\/span><\/sup><\/a> apart from receiving numerous awards and honours for his contribution to the arts and charities.<\/span>[v]<\/span><\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

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Before his retirement, he completed a world wide tour of farewell recitals some of which were captured in recordings. These recordings demonstrate how sweet and flexible as ever his voice was at the age of 65.<\/span>[vi]<\/span><\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

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Gigli\u2019s many recordings cover complete operas, as well as Neapolitan and popular songs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[i]<\/sup><\/a> SHAWE-TAYLOR DESOND \/ BLYTH, ALAN. GIGLI, BENIAMINO IN THE GROVE BOOK OF OPERA SINGERS, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, (2008) PP. 190-191<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[ii]<\/sup><\/a> IBID. P.190<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[iii]<\/sup><\/a> THIS FIRST RECORDING MAY BE HEARD ON YOUTUBE<\/a><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[iv]<\/sup><\/a> <\/span>HOLLYWOOD HALL OF FAME , BENIAMINO GIGLI <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[v]<\/sup><\/a> OPERA VIVRA, BENIAMINO GIGLI <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[vi]<\/a> <\/sup>TIME MAGAZINE, MUSIC: FORTISSIMO FAREWELL, MAY 02, 1955<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Beniamino Gigli, dessen Nachname ins Englische \u00fcbersetzt \u201eLilien\u201c bedeutet, hat heute Geburtstag. Sicherlich war seine Lirico-Spinto-Stimme genauso perfekt, s\u00fc\u00df und sch\u00f6n wie sein Namensvetter.
\nGiglis Karriere erlangte im englischsprachigen Raum Superstar, als er von der Metropolitan Opera New York engagiert wurde und die wenig beneidenswerte Aufgabe hatte, nach dessen fr\u00fchem und pl\u00f6tzlichem Tod in die Fu\u00dfstapfen von Enrico Caruso zu treten. Vergleiche waren unvermeidlich; aber das war nicht der Fall
\nEs dauert lange, bis der honigs\u00fc\u00dfe Gigli sein Publikum mit seiner flexiblen, lyrisch klingenden Stimme und der meisterhaften Umsetzung des Mezzosoprans \u00fcberzeugt.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-front-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}