Antonio Pini-Corsi

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Antonio Pini-Corsi (June, 1859 - April 21, 1918) was an Italian baritone.

Pini-Corsi was born in Zara, later known as Zadar. At the time, Zara was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire; it successively became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; Yugoslavia; and Croatia.

Pini-Corsi made his debut in Cremona in 1878, subsequently appearing in opera houses throughout Italy. So successful was he that Giuseppe Verdi invited him to appear as Ford in the premiere of Falstaff at La Scala in 1893. He made his debut in the United States on November 20, 1909, appearing at the Metropolitan Opera as Schaunard in La boheme, a role that he had sung at the opera's première in 1896. He remained with the company through the 1913-14 season, appearing in numerous world premieres, including those of Walter Damrosch's Cyrano de Bergerac, La Fanciulla del West (as Happy), Engelbert Humperdinck's Königskinder (as the Inkeeper), and Victor Herbert's Madeline. He also appeared in the American premieres of two operas by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, L'amore medico and Le donne curiose, and that of Alberto Franchetti's Germania.

Pini-Corsi died in Milan.

[edit] References

• David Ewen, Encyclopedia of the Opera: New Enlarged Edition. New York; Hill and Wang, 1963.
• Warrack, John, and Ewan West (1992). The Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-869164-5.