12” PATHE PL – GIUSEPPE BORGATTI
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12” PATHE PL – GIUSEPPE BORGATTI 10330
86690 LOHENGRIN (Wagner) : Racconto del Graal
86692 LOHENGRIN (Wagner) : Di non t’incantar
Nice copy.
CONDITION : E –
Giuseppe BORGATTI (Cento, March 17, 1871 -- Reno di Leggiuno, October 18, 1950)
Borgatti was an Italian dramatic tenor with an outstanding voice. He created the title role in Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chenier and became famous for his performances of the music of Richard Wagner at La Scala, Milan. Borgatti sang at La Scala from 1896 until 1914, when deteriorating eyesight caused by glaucoma put an end to his stage career. Borgatti was born into a poor rural family from the Province of Ferrara in northern Italy. He found work as a bricklayer/stone-cutter and did a stint of military service; but a wealthy patron, struck by the quality of his voice, arranged for him to have professional singing lessons. His teachers included Alessandro Busi in Bologna and, later, Carlo d'Ormeville. Borgatti made his operatic debut in 1892 (some sources say 1893) at Castelfranco Veneto, in the role of Faust by Charles Gounod. A string of performances at other Italian opera houses in mostly lyric parts ensued.
Eighteen ninety-four saw Borgatti successfully undertake the role of the Chevalier des Grieux in a notable production in Venice of Giacomo Puccini's Manon Lescaut. Later that same year he appeared at another major venue, the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, as Lohengrin (his first assumption of a Wagnerian part). His career was now gaining real momentum but he would not become a major opera star until 1896 when, at Milan's La Scala, he sang in the premiere performance of Andrea Chénier to great acclaim.
Although Borgatti continued to appear in a number of Italian operas after 1896, earning particular renown for his performances in works by Giuseppe Verdi, Puccini and the verismo composers, he fell strongly under the spell of Wagner's music dramas. He worked closely with La Scala's leading conductor, Arturo Toscanini, from 1898 through into the early 1900s, and proceeded to master all the main tenor parts of the Wagnerian repertoire, namely, Lohengrin, Tannhauser, Walther, Tristan, Siegmund, Siegfried and, finally, Parsifal.
In 1898, he toured South America with a first-class troupe of Italian singers which included his fellow tenor Francesco Tamagno, the soprano Luisa Tetrazzini and the baritones Mario Sammarco and Eugenio Giraldoni. He also visited Spain and Russia. Then, in 1901, he took part in a "grand concert" at La Scala that had been organised to mark the recent death of Verdi. Toscanini conducted the concert and among the array of soloists participating in it with Borgatti were Tamagno and the rising tenor star Enrico Caruso. Borgatti became the first Italian tenor invited to sing at Germany's Bayreuth Festival in 1904. Both Cosima Wagner (the composer's widow and the festival's director) and the important Wagnerian conductor Hans Richter praised Borgatti's voice and artistry. In 1906, he made a different venture into the field of German opera when he sang Herod in the La Scala premiere of Salome by Richard Strauss.
Good looking and robustly built, Borgatti is said to have possessed abundant reserves of stamina and strong histrionic ability in addition to a smooth, limpid voice of large size. Critics lauded him, too, for the clarity of his diction and the beauty of his phrasing. Oddly enough, despite his exceptional attainments as a singer and interpretive artist, he never performed in London or New York City.
At the height of his career, in 1907, Borgatti began losing his sight due to glaucoma. This affliction grew steadily worse, obliging him to retire from the operatic stage seven years after its onset, even though his voice was still in prime condition. He kept giving concerts, however, and the theatre in his home town of Cento was named in his honour in 1924. By this juncture, he was blind in both eyes. His last public performance occurred in Bologna in 1928. He taught singing in Milan following the curtailment of his opera house career. His best known pupils were the English lyric tenor Heddle Nash (1894-1961) and the German baritone Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender (1897-1978).
Borgatti married one of his singing teachers, Elena Cuccoli. He had a daughter, Renata Borgatti (1894-1964), who became a concert pianist. He died at a resort town near Italy's Lake Maggiore in 1950, aged 79
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E + + A near mint copy.
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E Excellent. Virtually no trace of groove wear with only minimal traces of use and handling.
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V + + Obviously well played but still enjoyable. Noticeable greying in the grooves
V + Very well worn but listenable Expect the surface noise to be significant. There may be stressed grooves.
V Stressed grooves more pronounced.
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