Ezio Flagello

Ezio Flagello was a colorful and popular American bass through the mid-’50s to 1987, the entire year of his pension. His popularity owed much, obviously, to his many effective performances for the world’s operatic phases, but he also made an appearance on several well-known tv shows and in the 1974 Academy Award-winning film The Godfather Component II playing the Impresario. Flagello sang using the Metropolitan Opera for 27 years and was a preferred with viewers there. His selection of repertory was uncommonly wide, consuming disparate assignments in the functions of Mozart (Leporello), Bellini (Rodolfo), Verdi (Sparafucile) , Wagner (Pogner), Puccini (the Jailer), Barber (Enobarbus), and many more. He made many recordings, which plenty of are still accessible from labels including Decca, Citadel, Myto, and Gala. Among his many extremely praised recordings are of La Sonnambula and Don Giovanni. Flagello was created in NEW YORK on January 28, 1931. His old sibling was famed composer Nicolas Flagello. Ezio implemented his brother’s business lead in choosing to review music on the Manhattan College of Music. His most significant voice teachers there have been John Brownlee and Friedrich Schorr. Flagello’s biographies will declare that his public debut was on the 1955 Empire Condition Celebration, where he sang Dulcamara in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. Accurate enough, but a far more essential debut occurred the previous calendar year when he made an appearance on the tv screen present Ed Sullivan’s The Toast of the city (June 6) with various other notables that included Victor Borge. Flagello debuted on the Met in 1957 as the Jailer in Puccini’s Tosca. He made an appearance in numerous essential roles on the Met over time (528 shows), singing going back period there on Dec 17, 1984, in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville as Dr. Bartolo. He also made an appearance on lots of the Met radio broadcasts during this time period. Due to Flagello’s portly appearance and good-natured character, he had not been only an excellent fit literally — not forgetting vocally — for most buffo tasks in opera, but a colourful personality for potential crossover viewers, like that from the Tonight Display, with Johnny Carson, which he made an appearance on March 29, 1971. Among Flagello’s last looks in concert was the 1987 Rossini Stabat Mater, shown in Jacksonville, FL. His even more memorable recordings are the music cycle The Property, a work compiled by his sibling and carried out by him, on Citadel Records.