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Opera singerAn Opera singer is a person who sings opera. He or she is typically also a Musical Artist.Properties Voice Type: expects Musical...
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| x Emma Abbott |
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Emma Abbott (December 9, 1850 – January 5, 1891) was an American operatic soprano and impresario known for her pure, clear voice of great flexibility and volume.
Abbot was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of a struggling Chicago musician. As...
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| x Marietta Alboni |
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Marietta Alboni (March 6, 1826 – June 23, 1894) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. With the exception of Maria Malibran, she was considered the greatest contralto of the nineteenth century.
She was born at Città di Castello, in Umbria....
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| x Aksel Schiøtz |
Aksel Schiøtz (1906–1975) was a Danish tenor.
Schiøtz was born in Roskilde, Denmark, but grew up in Hellerup near Copenhagen. Having obtained an M.A. in Danish and English in 1930 he taught at various schools in Roskilde and Copenhagen until 1938,...
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| x Christina Nilsson |
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Christina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, (August 20, 1843 - November 20, 1921) was a Swedish operatic soprano. She possessed a brilliant bel canto technique and was considered a rival to the Victoria era's most famous diva, Adelina Patti. She...
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| x Annely Peebo |
Annely Peebo (born 16 November 1971) is a mezzo-soprano from Estonia. She gained a diploma for choral conducting and completed vocal studies in song and opera. She studied at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Vienna in Vienna, Austria. In...
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| x Luigi Lablache |
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Luigi Lablache (6 December 1794 - 23 January 1858) was an Italian bass singer of French and Irish heritage, born in Naples. He was most noted for his comic performances, with a powerful bass voice, a wide range, and adept acting: Leporello in Don...
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| x Francesco Tamagno |
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Francesco Tamagno (28 December 1850 – 31 August 1905) was an Italian opera singer who performed to enormous acclaim in Europe and America.
The most famous heroic tenor of his age, Tamagno was celebrated throughout the operatic world for the extreme...
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| x Lorenzo Salvi | Tenor |
Lorenzo Salvi was an operatic tenor, born in Italy. He notably sang the role of Oliverio in the world premiere of Donizetti's Adelia in 1841. He, along with several other Italians, took part in the first performance of the Mexican national anthem on...
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| x Balbina Steffenone |
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Balbina Steffenone (also spelled Bina or Steffanone or Steffenoni, 1825-1896) was a 19th century soprano. Born in Turin, Italy, she studied in Bologna under Teresa Bertinotti, debuting as Lucia in Macerata in 1842. After singing across Italy, she...
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| x Carolyn Watkinson |
The English mezzo-soprano Carolyn Watkinson (born 19 March 1949) is a well-known singer of baroque music.
Watkinson was born in Preston and studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music and in The Hague. In 1978 she sang Rameau's Phèdre at the...
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| x Kathleen Battle |
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Kathleen Battle (born August 13, 1948, Portsmouth, Ohio, USA) is an American soprano known for her agile and light voice and her silvery, pure tone. Battle initially became known for her work within the concert repertoire through performances with...
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| x Anne Brown |
Anne Wiggins Brown (born Annie Wiggins Brown, August 9 1912 - died March 13 2009) was an African American soprano who created the role of "Bess" in the original production of George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess in 1935. She was also a radio...
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| x Nicolai Ghiaurov |
Nicolai Ghiaurov (or Nikolai Gjaurov, Bulgarian: Николай Гяуров) (September 13, 1929 – June 2, 2004) was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and...
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| x Francesca Cuzzoni |
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Francesca Cuzzoni (2 April 1696 – 19 June 1778), was an Italian operatic soprano of the Baroque era.
Cuzzoni was born in Parma. Her father, Angelo, was a professional violinist, and her singing teacher was Francesco Lanzi. She made her debut in her...
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| x Adelaide Kemble |
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Adelaide Kemble (November 1815 – 4 August 1879), was a British opera singer of great promise in the first half of the nineteenth century. She was the younger daughter of actor Charles Kemble and sister to the noted actress and anti-slavery activist...
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| x Franz Nachbaur | Tenor |
Franz Nachbaur (1835 – 1902) was a famous German opera tenor.
Born in Giessen, he studied with Francesco Lamperti in Milan and with the celebrated baritone Jan Krtitel Pisek in Stuttgart. He made his debut on the tage in Passau in 1857 and was...
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| x Anne Sofie von Otter |
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Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano.
Von Otter was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was the diplomat Göran von Otter and she grew up in Bonn, London and Stockholm. After studying in Stockholm and Guildhall School...
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| x Adele Addison |
Adele Addison (born July 24, 1925, Springfield, Massachusetts) is an African American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during the 1950s and 1960s. Although she did appear in several operas, Addison spent most of...
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| x Karita Mattila |
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Karita Mattila (pronounced KA-re-ta MATT-e-la) is a leading opera soprano. She was born Karita Marjatta Mattila on September 5, 1960 in Somero, Finland.
Mattila appears regularly in the major opera houses world-wide, including the Metropolitan Opera...
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| x Frances Alda |
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Frances Alda (born Fanny Jane Davis) (May 31, 1879 - September 18, 1952) was a New Zealand-born soprano. She achieved fame as an operatic diva during the first three decades of the 20th Century due to her outstanding singing voice and colourful...
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| x Semiha Berksoy |
Semiha Berksoy (1910 – August 15, 2004) was one of the first Turkish opera singers, the prima donna of the Turkish opera, a painter, and an internationally acclaimed artist.
She was born in Çengelköy, Istanbul, Turkey in 1910. She studied painting...
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| x Carol Plantamura |
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Carol Plantamura (b. February 8, 1941, Los Angeles, California) is an American soprano specializing in 17th and 20th century music.
She graduated from Occidental College and was an original member of the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Creative...
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| x Luigi Alva | Tenor |
Luigi Alva (10 April 1927) was the foremost tenore leggiero of the third quarter of the 20th century. He was admired for his purity of tone, the elegance of his phrasing and the clarity of his diction. A Mozart and Rossini specialist, Alva still...
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| x Matthias Goerne |
Matthias Goerne (born 1967) is a German baritone.
Born in Weimar, he studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
His repertoire spans a wide range of music, from baroque to contemporary, but above all he is a...
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| x Elly Ameling |
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Elisabeth Sara (Elly) Ameling (born February 8, 1933 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch soprano.
She studied with Bodi Rapp, Jo Bollekamp, Sem Dresden and Jacoba Dresden-Dhont and later French art song with Pierre Bernac. She won the first prize during the...
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| x Harold Blair | Tenor |
Harold Blair AM (13 September 1924 – 21 May 1976) was an Australian tenor and Aboriginal activist.
Blair was born at the Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve, 5 km from Murgon in Queensland. His mother was Esther Quinn, a teenage Aboriginal woman. His...
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| x Yoko Watanabe |
Yoko Watanabe (渡辺 葉子, Watanabe Yōko, 1953 – July 15, 2004) was a Japanese operatic soprano who spent much of her career singing the title role of Madame Butterfly all over Europe.
She was also known for her large repertoire including such works as...
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| x Valentin Adamberger |
Valentin Adamberger, also known by his Italian name Adamonti, (22 February 1740 or 6 July 1743 – 24 August 1804) was a German operatic tenor. His voice was universally admired for its pliancy, agility, and precision, and several composers of note,...
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| x Ernst Haefliger | Tenor |
Ernst Haefliger (July 6, 1919 – 17 March 2007) was a Swiss tenor.
Haefliger was born in Davos, Switzerland and studied at the Zürich Conservatory. He studied with Fernando Capri in Geneva and Julius Patzak in Vienna.
He had a lengthy and extensive...
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| x Kurt Böhme |
Kurt Böhme (May 5, 1908 – December 20, 1989) was a German bass.
He was born in Dresden, Germany, where he studied with Adolf Kluge at the Dresden Conservatory. He made his debut in 1930 in Bautzen as Kaspar, one of his most important roles further...
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| x Walter Berry |
Walter Berry (8 April 1929 – 27 October 2000) was an Austrian bass-baritone.
He studied voice at the Vienna Music Academy and made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1947. He became a regular member of the company in 1950 and remained with that...
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| x Eric Tappy | Tenor |
Eric Tappy (born May 19, 1931) is a Swiss operatic tenor.
Tappy studied with Fernando Carpi at the Geneva Conservatory and Ernst Reichert in Salzburg. He made his concert debut in Strasbourg in 1959 as the Evangelist in the St. Matthew Passion. He...
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| x Charles Bressler | Tenor |
Charles Bressler (April 1, 1926 – 1996) was an American tenor.
He was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania and studied at Juilliard. He became a founding member of the New York Pro Musica, with which he toured from 1953-1963. He has taught at the...
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| x Pierrette Alarie |
Pierrette Alarie, CC, CQ (born November 9, 1921) is a French Canadian coloratura soprano. Married to celebrated French-Canadian tenor Léopold Simoneau.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Alarie was the daughter of a choirmaster and assistant conductor of the...
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| x George London |
George London (May 30, 1920 – March 24, 1985, born as George Burnstein) was a Montreal-born concert and operatic bass-baritone. Son of a Russian Jewish family he grew up in Los Angeles.
After extensive concertizing with tenor Mario Lanza and soprano...
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| x Mario Ancona |
Mario Ancona (1860-1931) was an Italian baritone, born in Livorno, Tuscany to a Jewish family. A master of bel canto singing, he enjoyed an international reputation as a star of what is commonly referred to as the "Golden Age of Opera".
Ancona...
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| x Helga Meyer |
Helga D. Meyer (born February 12, 1942) was a German-born opera singer who died of cancer on April 4, 2000. She taught voice at Mary Washington College for many years. She is the mother of actress Sandra Bullock. Her father was a rocket scientist...
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| x Heather Harper |
Heather Harper CBE (born 8 May 1930) is an Irish operatic soprano.
She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she received her early musical training. She studied piano at the Trinity College of Music in London, with voice as a second subject,...
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| x Phyllis Curtin |
Phyllis Curtin (née Smith, on December 3, 1921) is an American soprano.
Curtin was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia and studied at Wellesley College and the New England Conservatory. She made her operatic debut as The Countess in Mozart's The...
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| x Lisa Otto |
Lisa Otto (14 November, 1919, Dresden) is a German operatic soprano, particularly associated with soubrette and light coloratura roles.
She is the daughter of bass Karl Otto, she studied at the Musikhochschule of her native city of Dresden with...
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| x Felicity Palmer |
Felicity Joan Palmer, CBE (born 6 April 1944), is an English mezzo-soprano (soprano until 1983) and professor of singing. Her operatic career has taken her to major opera houses in the UK, U.S. and Europe.
Palmer was born in Cheltenham, England. She...
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| x Lillian Evanti |
Lillian Evanti (August 12, 1890 – December 6, 1967), was an African American opera singer. Evanti, a soprano, debuted in 1927 in Delibes's Lakmé at Nice, France. She graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor's Degree in music and studied in...
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| x Caterina Jarboro |
Caterina Jarboro (1903–1986) was a pioneering African American opera singer. In 1933 — twenty-two full years before Marian Anderson's début at the Metropolitan Opera — impresario Alfredo Salmaggi hired Jarboro to sing with his opera company at the...
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| x Abbie Mitchell |
Abriea Mitchell (25 September 1884 – 16 March 1960), also billed as Abbey Mitchell, was an American soprano opera singer who created the role of "Clara" in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in 1935.
Mitchell began her career in musical comedy with...
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| x Edward Matthews |
Edward Matthews (1904-1954) was a pioneering African American opera singer. In 1934, he created the role of "Ignatius of Loyola" in Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts, which he reprised in the 1952 revival of the opera - his last appearance on...
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| x La Julia Rhea |
La Julia Rhea (1908—1992) was an American operatic soprano, and a pioneering African American figure in Chicago. Rhea was trained in Louisville, Kentucky and later in Chicago. She debuted in Chicago's Kimball Hall in 1929. She continued to make...
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| x William Franklin |
William Franklin (born 1906 in Memphis, Tennessee) was an opera singer and was considered a pioneer African American among the Chicago music scene. William first started his musical career playing trombone and singing in jazz groups after finishing...
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| x Camilla Williams |
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Camilla Ella Williams (born October 18, 1919) is an American operatic soprano and the first African American to receive a contract with a major American opera company.
Born in Danville, Virginia, Williams trained at Virginia State College (now...
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| x Caffarelli |
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Gaetano Majorano (12 April 1710 – 31 January 1783) was an Italian castrato and opera singer, who took his stage name Caffarelli from Domenico Caffaro, his patron. Like Farinelli, Caffarelli was a student of Nicola Porpora.
Caffarelli was born in...
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| x Simon Keenlyside |
Simon Keenlyside (born August 3, 1959, London, England), is a British baritone opera singer. He is the son of Raymond and Ann Keenlyside. His father played second violin in the Aeolian Quartet, and his grandfather was also a professional violinist....
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| x Dmitri Hvorostovsky |
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Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky (, born October 16, 1962), is a top baritone opera singer from Russia.
Hvorostovsky was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. He studied at the Krasnoyarsk School of Arts under Yekatherina Yofel and made his debut at...
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| x Eugen Gura |
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Eugen Gura (November 8, 1842 – August 26, 1906) was a German operatic baritone.
Gura was born near Saatz in Bohemia, which is present day Žatec, Czech Republic.
He was at first educated for the career of a painter at Vienna and Munich; but later,...
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| x Nell Rankin |
Nell Rankin (January 3, 1924 – January 13, 2005) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano. Although a successful opera singer internationally, she spent most of her career at the Metropolitan Opera where she worked from 1951-1976. Rankin was...
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| x June Bronhill |
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June Bronhill, OBE (26 June 1929 – 24 January 2005) was an internationally acclaimed soprano opera singer.
She was born June Mary Gough in the inland Australian city of Broken Hill in New South Wales. Her stage name Bronhill, which she used from...
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| x Tomislav Mužek |
Tomislav Muzek (born May 28, 1976) is a Croatian tenor and opera singer.
He studied in Vienna at the University of Music and Performing Arts and made his professional debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1999.
Was an ensemblemember of the Bremer...
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| x Birgit Finnilä |
Birgit Finnilä (born January 20, 1931) is a Swedish contralto and opera singer.
Finnilä was born in Falkenberg, Sweden and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She made her operatic debut in Göteborg in 1963. Though principally singing...
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| x Ernst Kozub | Tenor |
Ernst Kozub (January 12, 1924 – January 6, 1971) was a German tenor and opera singer.
Kozub was born in Duisburg, Germany. Though his early death prevented him from fully realising his promise, he stands out as one of the notable heldentenor voices...
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| x Elena Nicolai |
Stoyanka Savova Nikolova, more famous by her stage name Elena Nicolai (January 24, 1905 – October 23, 1993), was a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano and opera singer.
Nicolai was born in 1905 in the village of Tzerovo, Pazardzhik region, in Bulgaria. She...
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| x Marcel Journet |
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Marcel Journet (July 25, 1867 – September 7, 1933), was a French bass. He enjoyed a prominent career in European and American opera houses in New York City and Chicago.
Journet was born in Grasse, southern France, and reputedly studied at the Paris...
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| x Eva Mylott |
Eva Mylott (1875 Tuross Head, New South Wales, Australia – c. 1920 New York City or New Jersey) was an Australian contralto opera singer.
Her parents, Patrick Mylott, an importer of wine and spirits and his wife, Mary Heffernan (the daughter of...
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