{"id":19890,"date":"2014-07-26T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T13:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=19890"},"modified":"2014-07-26T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T13:43:12","slug":"carlo-bergonzi-1924-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/07\/26\/carlo-bergonzi-1924-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlo Bergonzi  (1924 &#8211; 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19891\" style=\"width: 948px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/bergonzi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19891\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/bergonzi.jpg\" alt=\"Tenor Carlo Bergonzi (1924 - 2014) as Radames in Verdi's Aida  in 1956, the year of his Metropolitan Opera debut.\" width=\"948\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/bergonzi.jpg 948w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/bergonzi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tenor Carlo Bergonzi (1924 &#8211; 2014) as Radames in Verdi&#8217;s Aida in 1956, the year of his Metropolitan Opera debut.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019ve just heard the sad news this morning that the Italian lyric tenor Carlo Bergonzi, who just turned 90 this past July 13<sup>th<\/sup>, passed away last night.<\/p>\n<p>Bergonzi was best known for his interpretation of Verdi\u2019s operas, and was responsible for reviving a number of his lesser-known works. He had an extraordinary attention to detail, and his smooth crooning legato, and warm delivery was admired the world over.<\/p>\n<p>Since retiring, Bergonzi has left a legacy of many recordings including works by Cil\u00e8a, Verdi, Puccini, Ponchielli, Mascagni and Leoncavallo.<\/p>\n<p>He will be missed.<\/p>\n<p>In tribute, here is a video of Bergonzi performing an aria from Meyerbeer&#8217;s L&#8217;Africaine in 1969.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rOSyxpJ9D9U?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Vincent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just heard the sad news this morning that the Italian lyric tenor Carlo Bergonzi, who just turned 90 this past July 13th, passed away last night. Bergonzi was best known for his interpretation of Verdi\u2019s operas, and was responsible for reviving a number of his lesser-known works. He had an extraordinary attention to detail, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,39,41,43,56],"tags":[4802],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/bergonzi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-5aO","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19890"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19897,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19890\/revisions\/19897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19890"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}