Music: Hina Spani (Soprano from Argentina) - Ebben? Ne andro lontana - Comp. Alfredo Catalani - La Wally HMV - 1928 - Links - Bio
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Hina Spani (15 February 1896 – 11 July
1969) was an Argentine soprano. Her real name was Higinia Tuñón and she enjoyed
a major opera career centred on Italy during the 1920s and '30s.
Overview
Spani was born in Puán, Province of
Buenos Aires, an old town located in the pampas of Argentina. When it was
discovered that she had a clear, pleasing voice, a landowner from the vicinity
of her home town agreed to help her to meet the costs of studying voice, first
in Buenos Aires with Amalia Campodonico and later in Milan with Vittorio
Moratti.
She made her operatic début at La Scala,
Milan, in 1915, in the secondary rôle of Anna in Alfredo Catalani's La Wally.
She sang regularly at La Scala—Italy's most important theatre—and in all the
leading Italian theaters until 1934. She also toured Australia with a
first-rate troupe composed of some of La Scala's leading singers.
At the Teatro Colón she was heard between
1915 and 1940, creating the title part in the world première of Respighi's
Maria Egiziaca in 1934, as well as several operas by Argentine composers. She
sang over 70 rôles ranging from Ottavia in Monteverdi's 17th century opera
L'incoronazione di Poppea to works by then living composers.
After retiring from the operatic stage,
she taught at the Vocal Art Institut of the Teatro Colón, which she directed.
Spani died in Buenos Aires on 11 July
1969.
Recordings
Spani made some 40 sides for the Italian
Columbia and HMV recording companies. Reissues of her best 78-rpm records can
be heard on excellent CDs produced by the Preiser and Pearl labels.
Appreciation
Spani's style and technique were typical
of a Latin soprano of the 1920-1945 period, but her rich tone was much smoother
and her musicianship more subtle than that of most of her contemporaries. She
was an outstanding spinto with a constant appreciation of the expressive limits
of the music that she sang; as a result, she invested her operatic
interpretations with a unique combination of intensity and restraint.
Inter-war opera-goers spoke admiringly of
the "grand", expansive quality that her voice possessed when it was
experienced in the acoustics of a theatre as opposed to a boxy recording
studio. She also had a vast concert repertory which she had been encouraged to
acquire by her first teacher in Buenos Aires. Very little of this is documented
on record (although she did leave a handful of lovely song recordings), but
those who saw her in recital remembered the joy that she communicated. In this
respect, she was a real cosmopolitan artist.
References
Harold Rosenthal and John Warrack; The Concise Oxford Dictionary of
Opera, second edition, London, 1980.
J.B. Steane; The Grand Tradition, London, 1974.
Hina Spani (Higinia Tuñón) fue una soprano
spinto argentina que nació en Puán (Provincia de Buenos Aires) en 1896 y
falleció en Buenos Aires en 1969.
Estudió con Amanda Campodonico en Buenos
Aires viajando a Italia para estudiar con Vittorio Mortatti en Milán.
Debutó en La Scala como Anna en Loreley
en 1915 y en el Teatro Colón como Micaela, Nedda, Inés en La africanade
Meyerbeer. Allí cantó hasta 1939 más de 70 roles como Amelia, Donna Elvira,
Marguerite, Elena, Lauretta, Mathilde, Debora e Jaele de Ildebrando Pizzetti
Maria Egiziaca de Ottorino Respighi, Castor y Polux de Rameau, Giulio Cesare de
Malipiero, incluyendo óperas argentinas como La leyenda del urutaú, La sangre
de las guitarras, Amaya, Ilsey Tucuman y Raquela de Felipe Boero.
Tuvo una importante carrera en Argentina,
España y Italia donde cantó, entre otros papeles, Leonora (Il trovatore),
Madame Butterfly, Marguerite (Faust), Tosca, Lady Macbeth, Elisabeth
(Tannhäuser), Maddalena, Desdemona, Mimì, Marina, Sieglinde, Santuzza, Wally,
Aida, Amelia y Giulietta ( Riccardo Zandonai).
Se retiró en 1940, aunque continuó dando
recitales hasta 1946.
Se dedicó a la enseñanza. Dirigió la
Escuela de Arte Escénico del Teatro Colón.
Discografía de referencia
Hina Spani - Recordings 1924-1931
The Emi Record Of Singing Vol 3 - 1926-1939
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