Only 20 minutes Enjoy Florencio Constantino Best 15 Opera Highlights

Only 20 minutes Enjoy Florencio Constantino Best 15 Opera Highlights 1 L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love), Act It: Una furt... 2 Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I: Ah! Verranno a te sull.. 3 Lucia di Lammermoor: Act III: Tu che a Dio spiega... 4 La favorita, Act I: Una vergine, un’angel di Dio 5 Il Duca d’Alba, Act IV: Angelo casto e bel (complet.- 6 Mignon: Mignon, Act II: Ah Non Credevi Tu 7 Rigoletto: Act I: Questa o quella 8 Rigoletto: ActI: E il sol dell’anima 9 Il trovatore : ActI: Deserto sulla terra 10 il trovatore: Act Il: Di quella pira 11 La traviata: ActI: Un di, felice, eterea 12 La traviata: Act Il: De’ miei bollenti spiriti 13 La traviata: Act IlI: Parigi, o cara 14 La forza del destino, Act lt: Solenne in quest ora 15 Aida: Aida, Act I: Celeste Aida Florencio Constantino (April 9, 1869 – November 19, 1919) was a Spanish operatic tenor who had an active international performance career from 1892 through 1917. He was particularly admired for his performances in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi and Vincenzo Bellini; with the roles of the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto and Arturo in I puritani being signature roles for the tenor. Raised primarily in Argentina, Constantino began his career performing in opera houses in South America from 1892–1897 before traveling to Spain to pursue vocal training with Leopoldo Stiatesi. From 1898–1900 he appeared in leading roles in opera houses in Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, and Russia and then resumed performing in opera houses in South America during the first years of the 20th century. He returned to Europe for a tour of Spain and Germany in 1903–1904 and then became a resident artist at the Theater des Westens in Berlin in 1904–1905. In 1905 Constantino was committed to the Royal Opera House in London before joining English impresario Henry Russell’s touring San Carlo Opera Company; a company with whom he toured the United States in 1906–1907. In 1908 he joined Oscar Hammerstein I’s Manhattan Opera Company and in 1909 he became the principal tenor of the newly created Boston Opera Company; a company with whom he performed until it closed in 1915. In 1910 he made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera. After the closing of the Boston Opera Company, Constantino moved to Los Angeles where he served as the Artistic Director of the California Grand Opera Company in 1916. In 1917 a disastrous appearance at the Saint Louis Opera led to a highly publicized lawsuit against Constantino. He left the United States for Mexico City where he suffered a mental breakdown and died at a hospital for the destitute in 1919. Life and career Constantino, photo by M. Marcoartu [Wikidata], Bilbao Florencio Constantino was born on April 9, 1869, in Ortuella, Spain.[1] He moved with his family to Argentina while a young child.[1] There he began his professional life as a machinist while a teenager and then progressed to working as a ship engineer.[1] With the assistance of a Spanish patron he obtained vocal training, and made his professional opera debut in 1889 at the Solís Theatre in Uruguay as Fernando in Gaetano Donizetti’s La favorite.[1] At that theatre he also performed the role of Lázaro in Tomás Bretón’s La Dolores in 1892; a role he repeated at the Teatro Odeón in Buenos Aires later that year.[1] In 1897 he was committed to another opera house in Buenos Aires, the Teatro Opera.[1] After his initial career in South America, Constantino went to Spain to pursue further vocal training with Leopoldo Stiatesi who had trained under Giovanni Battista Lamperti.[2] He embarked on a career singing in European opera houses, achieving his first critical success as the Duke of Mantua in Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan in 1898.[1] That same year he performed the role of Rodolfo in Holland’s first staging of Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème.[1] In 1900 he made his debuts at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and the Grand Theatre, Warsaw.[1] After this Constantino left Europe to return to South America, where he was busy performing in that continent’s major opera houses during the first years of the 20th century.[1] He returned to Europe in 1903 and had success on a concert tour of Spain and Germany in 1903–1904.[1] He was a resident artist at the Theater des Westens in Berlin in 1904–1905 where he had critical successes as Manrico in Verdi’s Il trovatore and as the Duke of Mantua.[1]