Antonio Videgain Reparaz
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January 11, 1892
Antonio Videgain | |
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| Born | Antonio Videgain Reparaz January 11, 1892 Madrid, Spain |
| Died | June 1, 1945 (aged 53) Panama City, Panama |
| Education | Militar High School |
| Alma mater | Academy of engineers |
| Occupations | baritone, actor, singer |
| Years active | 1907–1945 |
| Political party | Republican |
Antonio Videgain Reparaz (November 1, 1892 – June 1, 1945) was a Spanish baritone and actor. He dedicated his career to zarzuelas and operas.
Videgain was born in Madrid son of Antonio Videgain García, (Jerez de la Frontera), and Virgilia Reparaz (Madrileñian) and spent his childhood and adolescence in Madrid. He grew up in the Royal Palace of Spain where his mother was a governess of the Borbon Family (King Alfonse XIII) and under the strict supervision of his Uncle and Tutor Ricardo Burguete, General in Chief of the Supreme Council of War of the Spanish Armed Forces, who was married to the sister of his mother. He began music lessons with his father, Antonio Videgain García (Piano teacher), and continued his education with other composers. By the age of 18, he was enrolled in the Spanish Army, where he completed studies as a surveyor. Apparently he made his debut in 1907 in the Slavic Theater in Madrid singing an operetta with good results, but after a while he entered the army's surveying school. He founded a singing operette (musical) and zarzuela company, making his debut in Andalucía with a production of Rafael Calleja. Music was in his veins, inherited from his Father and his uncle, the famous Salvador Videgain Garcia. After military graduation, he traveled to Argentina and Chile and then returned to Spain on different occasions with works of different zarzuelas with which he had great success in his tours through South America, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. He returned to Chile where he married and had six children in total, of which five survived. From a second relation with his singing partner he had two more, HERMINIA born 1929 in Barcrlona & Mauricio Videgain born in N Africa following the occupation by Franco. a second marriage in Panama, he had one more son. According to "those who have seem him conduct and have transmitted to us the memory of his performances of great strength and great enthusiasm. he obtained with imperceptible gestures what he wanted from the orchestra." fitz of his sense of rhythm and easy melodies.