Giovanni Inchindi
opera singer
Jean-François Hennekindt, also known as Giovanni Inchindi (12 March 1798 – 23 August 1876) was a Belgian opera singer born in Bruges who began his career as a tenor but went on to become one of the premier baritones in France and abroad, with a voice known for its ease in both low and high passages and adaptability to different kinds of roles.
He studied singing in his hometown and debuted at the Théâtre royal d'Anvers as Cinna in La vestale. In 1822 he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied singing with Plantade and declamation with Baptiste the elder. The next year, having won a prize for his singing, he debuted at the Paris Opera as a cover for the famous basse-taille Henri-Etienne Dérivis and François Laÿs. The Pasha in Le caravanne du Caïre and Œdipe in Œdipe à Colone were his greatest successes. He spent 1823, 1824, and 1825 at the Opéra, and as his vocal means were not fully developed and he was forced to switch between bass and tenor. He created the role of Capo dei Galli in Pharamond of Boiëldieu, Berton, Kreuzer and Le Sueur.
Being frustrated with the lack of encouragement he had gotten thus far, he moved to Venice and Barcelona to study belcanto. It was in Italy that he changed his name to the more Italian "Giovanni Inchindi". He appeared as Lusignano in the premiere production of Vincenzo Bellini's Zaira in May 1829 in Parma.
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