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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Tenore Robusto ANTONIO PAOLI (1871-1946) sings "Esultate," followed by "Ora e per sempre addio" from Verdi's Otello on an early G & T 78 rpm disc # 025172.
Paoli, who was a giant of a man, had one of the MOST POWERFUL voices of any tenor---EVER!
Known as "The King of Tenors," he is considered the first Puerto Rican to reach international fame in the musical arts.
Antonio Paoli was born in Puerto Rico. After the death of his parents at age 12, he went to live with his sister in Spain, herself an established opera singer.
Sister Amalia Paoli arranged for him to study voice, whereafter he made his major debut in 1899 at the Paris Opéra, as Arnold in Guillaume Tell.
In 1902-1903 he belonged to an opera troupe assembled by Mascagni that toured the USA and Canada. He frequently toured South America and in 1920 spent a season in Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia.
He had reat successes through Italy, South America, and the United States. He eventually returned to Puerto Rico to teach. He received an honorary pension from his native Puerto Rico.
Antonio Paoli died of cancer in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 24, 1946, and was buried in the Puerto Rico Memorial Cementery of Isla Verde. On April 13, 2005 the remains of Paoli and those of his wife Adina Bonimi (who had died in 1978) were transferred to Ponce and buried in the National Pantheon in Ponce by the base of HIS STATUE.
His only recordings were for G&T (HMV, Italian Victor) in Milan.
