A true basso cantante (singing bass), he had enough ... Although Pinza could barely read music, he had a prodigious musical memory and a bone-deep sense of musical taste. He labored over makeup ...

Next day critics tried hard to find a new way of saying that Ezio Pinza is the world’s greatest operatic basso, the greatest singing actor of his generation. Pinza, who has been singing at the ...

And then that comes through in his music exactly the same way," he said. "More than anybody I've ever known, it was just like a human voice is playing." Sanborn says Basso is an unsung hero in ...