Enzo Mascherini [SEP] voice type
Enzo Mascherini
Enzo Mascherini (6 August 1910, Florence - 29 July 1981, Livorno) was an Italian operatic baritone, one of the leading baritones of his generation.
He studied in Florence with Titta Ruffo and Riccardo Stracciari and made his debut there in 1937, as Giorgio Germont in "La traviata", and also sang at the premiere of Gian Francesco Malipiero's "Antonio e Cleopatra", in 1938. He made his debut at the San Carlo in Naples, in 1939, and at the Teatro alla
"Rigoletto" (with Warren, then Enzo Mascherini), "Die Zauberflöte", and "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (with Giuseppe Valdengo). She also sang Woglinde and the Waldvogel in "Der Ring des Nibelungen", with Kirsten Flagstad and Helen Traubel alternating as Brünnhilde.
She sang the role of Zerlina in the 1954 Salzburg Festival production of "Don Giovanni" conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler, released on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon. As an interpreter of Lieder, she often performed with the German pianist Sebastian Peschko