Florencio Constantino

Florencio Constantino (April 9, 1869 - November 19, 1919) was a Spanish operatic tenor.

Biography

He was born as Florencio Constantineau on April 9, 1869 in Bilbao, Spain. He moved to Argentina in 1889.[1] He had a nervous breakdown and died on November 19, 1919 in Mexico City.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Florencio Constantino". http://www.cantabile-subito.de/Tenors/Constantino__Florencio/constantino__florencio.html. Retrieved 2010-08-12. "He was born Florencio Constantineau in Bilbao (Basque part of Spain) on April 9, 1869 and finally immigrated to Argentina in 1889. While working as a ship’s engineer he discovered a voice of natural beauty and after a brief period of training with Leopoldo Stiatesi, a student of Lamperti , Constantino made his debut in Bréton’s La Dolores at the Teatro Solis in Montevideo, repeating the role in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Odéon. After spending some year ..." 
  2. ^ "Constantino is Dead". Los Angeles Times. November 25, 1919. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/335376102.html?dids=335376102:335376102&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+25,+1919&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=CONSTANTINO+IS+DEAD+IN+SOUTH.&pqatl=google. Retrieved 2010-08-12. "Florencio Constantino for many years a great grand opera tenor is dead in Mexico City ... Constantino a son of the singer who is at the Mex ican capital now ..." 

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