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Lauritz Melchior (20 March 1890 – 18 March 1973) was a Danish-American opera singer. He was the preeminent Wagnerian heldentenor of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s and has come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type.
May 1, 2024 · Lauritz Melchior was a Danish-U.S. tenor. He debuted as a baritone in 1913 but further study extended his range upward, and he made his tenor debut as Tannhäuser in 1918. Additional training readied him for Bayreuth, where he sang (1924–31), and he remained the preeminent Wagnerian tenor of his.
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Mar 20, 2019 · Lauritz Melchior remains one of the greatest Wagner tenors ever to perform. Born on March 20, 1890 in Copenhagen, he was a boy soprano and amateur singer in his youth. However, he would study at the Royal Opera School in Copenhagen and made his professional debut in 1913, as a baritone.
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1890, Lauritz Melchior was a prominent opera singer who was a latecomer to the silver screen. From the 1920s through the 1940s, he was a leading opera singer across Europe. From 1924-1939, he excelled in Wagnerian roles in Covent Garden at the Royal Opera House in London. He also sang with the Chicago Opera and ...
- March 20, 1890
- March 18, 1973
The greatest tenor of the century in his own field, brings us to the Great Dane Lauritz Melchior, born on the 20th of March 1890, in Copenhagen. This great Wagner specialist dominated his field as no other since the advent of recording.
Mar 19, 1973 · Lauritz Melchior, one of the era's greatest Wagnerian tenors, died yesterday afternoon of complications following an emergency gall bladder operation at St. John's Hospital in Santa...
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L auritz Melchior (1890–1973) was the most famous Wagnerian Heldentenor (“heroic tenor”) of his day. From the 1920s through the 1940s, he sang at all the great opera houses — Covent Garden, the Festival Theater at Bayreuth, and, most significantly, the Metropolitan Opera of New York.
