Portrete de mari cântăreți bănățeni (I)
Portraits of great singers from Banat I

Summary/Abstract: "The singer is a torchbearer. As long as the torch lights up, the world follows him. When he dies, he is left alone. I would like your torch to light up as long as possible, dear colleague, I wish it with all my heart, Leo Slezak". These words were written by the famous Austrian tenor of Czech origin, to Traian Grosavescu, in Vienna, on February 20, 1924, when no one would have suspected that after only three years, the great Romanian tenor would leave us, in tragic face, in full professional ascent. On November 21, 2020, we commemorated 125 years since the birth of Traian Grosavescu and on December 20, 2020, it was 100 years since his debut as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, with soprano Elena Roman, in the female title role and mezzo-soprano Lya Pop, in the role of Suzuki. Our duty is to keep alive the torch of great Romanian singers, from the Banat area and not only, in an effort to restore the universal cultural memory, of some personalities of world- famous singers, who influenced the destiny of the singing art here and everywhere.

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