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This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Rodríguez and the second or maternal family name is Roglán. Elvira de Hidalgo Elvira de Hidalgo standing portrait extracted.jpg Elvira de Hidalgo, 1920s. Born Elvira Juana Rodríguez Roglán 28 December 1891

Died 21 January 1980 (aged 88) Milan, Italy Occupation Opera singer (soprano)pedagogue Parent(s) Pedro Rodríguez Hidalgo (father) Miguela Roglán Bel (mother)

Elvira Juana Rodríguez Roglán, Valderrobres (Teruel), Spanje, 28 december 1891 – 21 januari 1980), professioneel bekend als Elvira de Hidalgo, was een prominent Spaanse coloratuur sopraan, die later bekend werd als zangpedagoog en zangcoach. Haar beroemdste leerling was Maria Callas.

Biografie

De Hidalgos werd geboren in Valderrobres, Aragon, in het noordoosten van Spanje Zij was een leerling van Concepció Bordalba in Barcelona en studeerde later in Milaan onder Melchiorre Vidal, die ook Maria Barrientos, Graziella Pareto, Julián Gayarre, Fernando Valero, Francesc Viñas en Rosina Storchio les gaf.

Zij maakte haar debuut op haar zestiende in het Theater di San Carlo in Napels, l Rosina in De Barbier van Sevilla, die haar bekendste rol zou worden. Na haar debuut werd De Hidalgo aangesteld in Parijs, waar ze Rosita zong tegenover Feodor Chaliapin als Don Basilio. Optredens in Monte Carlo en Cairo volgden. Haar debuut met de New York Metropolitan Opera als Rosina vond plaats in 1910. Met dat gezelschap, zong De Hidalgo in hetzelfde seizoen in Rigoletto (met Enrico Caruso) en La Sonnambula (met Alessandro Bonci). In 1924-25 keerde ze terug naar de Met.. voor De Barbier van Sevilla, (gedirigeerd door Armando Agnini), Rigoletto (gedirigeerd Tullio Serafin), en Lucia di Lammermoor (met Beniamino Gigli). In vervolg op dat New York debuut, zong zij in Florence in Linda di Chamounix en in Don Giovanni (als Zerlina tegenover Mattia Battistini). Zij vertolkte Rosina in 1911 in Rome. Ook zong de sopraan in 1913 in St. Petersburg met Giuseppe Anselmi in Rigoletto.

In 1916, she made her debut at La Scala, Milan, as Rosina, and returned there in 1921. The following year, de Hidalgo appeared in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colón, in Rigoletto, La traviata, and The Barber of Seville. In 1924, she appeared in London with the British National Opera Company, at Covent Garden, in Rigoletto. On 17 February 1924, she also appeared at the Royal Albert Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Thomas Beecham conducting.[2] That same year, she sang Lakmé and Il barbiere in Chicago. In 1926-27, she appeared opposite Chaliapin again, for a tour of the United States and Canada, with his Universal Artists Incorporation Company, in Il barbiere.

Plaatopnamen

Elvira de Hidalgo recorded for Columbia, with arias from Il barbiere, La sonnambula, and I puritani committed to disc in 1907-08. In 1909-10 she made discs for Fonotipia, with excerpts recorded from Il barbiere, Don Pasquale, La sonnambula, Roméo et Juliette, Dinorah, L'elisir d'amore, Don Giovanni, and Mireille. She apparently returned to the Columbia studios, in 1925, to record a performance of the "Mad Scene" from Dinorah, then again to the studio in 1937-38.[citation needed]

Zangpedagoge

Elvira de Hidalgo began teaching in 1933, and later held a position at the Athens Conservatoire, where the young soprano Maria Callas became her student. In 1957, Callas wrote of the woman who had an "essential role" in her artistic formation:

It is to this illustrious Spanish artist, whom the public and the old subscribers at La Scala will certainly recall as an unforgettable and superlative Rosina and as a splendid interpreter of other important roles, it is to this illustrious artist, I repeat, with a moved, devoted, and grateful heart, that I owe all my preparation and my artistic formation as an actress and musician. This elect woman, who, besides giving me her precious teaching, gave me her whole heart as well ....

Overlijden

De Hidalgo died in Milan in 1980. She was initially buried in an unidentified grave until 1990 upon expiration, when her pupils and friends paid to relocate her remains to the Cimitero Maggiore di Milano, which expired in 2020.[3] Her remains were exhumed on 26 February 2018 and transferred to Barcelona on 5 March.[4] On 29 July, her remains returned and was re-buried in her hometown with a lyrical gala, coinciding the inauguration of the exhibition dedicated to her memory at the Museo de Valderrobres, which featured a screening of Maria by Callas, and the placement of a plaque in her home building.[5]