Vinay, Ramon

Vinay, Ramon
▪ 1997

      Chilean opera singer (b. Aug. 31, 1912, Chillán, Chile—d. Jan. 4, 1996, Puebla, Mexico), achieved his greatest recognition as a heroic tenor, most notably in the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's Otello. He performed at New York City's Metropolitan Opera for 16 seasons (1946-61), at the summer Richard Wagner festival at Bayreuth, Germany, for 6 seasons (1952-57), and throughout Europe and South America, and his 1947 broadcast of Otello, with Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Orchestra, was recorded by RCA and became one of the most famous operatic recordings. Vinay, whose father was French and mother Italian, was educated in France and then worked in Mexico. He also began voice lessons, and in 1931 in Mexico City he made his stage debut in a baritone role, Alphonse in Gaetano Donizetti's La favorite. Vinay continued in baritone roles for several years but, after having resumed study when he found that his voice was changing, made his debut as a tenor in 1943. He sang his first Otello at the Mexico City Opera in 1944. Vinay made his New York debut in 1945 in the role of Don José in Carmen for the New York City Opera, and a few months later came his Metropolitan Opera bow, also as Don José. Among his other roles at the Met, in addition to Otello, were Canio in Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Samson in Camille Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila, and Radames in Verdi's Aida. His roles during his six seasons at Bayreuth included Siegmund in Die Walküre, Tristan in Tristan und Isolde, and the title roles in Parsifal and Tannhäuser, and in 1962 he returned to that festival, having resumed singing baritone roles, as Telramund in Lohengrin. Another of Vinay's baritone roles was Iago, which he sang in a production of Otello that he directed in Santiago, Chile. On Sept. 22, 1969, however, in the last act of the performance that was his farewell to the stage, he returned one last time to the role of Otello.

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