Pasquale Amato
Birthplace: Naples, Kingdom of Italy
An Italian baritone and a leading member of the Metropolitan Opera from 1908 to 1921. He trained at the San Pietro a Majella conservatory in Naples under Beniamino Carelli and made his debut in the city in 1900 as Germont, the role of his Met debut eight years later. He sang the principal Italian baritone repertory there, with French parts and Kurwenal and Amfortas in German, and created Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West, the title role of Damrosch's Cyrano de Bergerac and Napoleon in Giordano's Madame Sans-Gêne. He headed voice and opera at Louisiana State University from 1935.
Creations
- Jack Rance — La fanciulla del West
Written from
- Shawe-Taylor, D. (1992) 'Amato, Pasquale', in Sadie, S. (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Reference, vol. 1, p. 107.
- Wikipedia (2026) Pasquale Amato. (Accessed: 20 September 2026).
- Kutsch, K.J. and Riemens, L. (1987) 'Amato, Pasquale', in Großes Sängerlexikon. Bern and Stuttgart: Francke, vol. 1, cols. 49-50.
- The New York Times (1913) 'When Amato was a starving singer in Milan', 21 December, section M, p. 9. (Accessed: 4 October 2026).