Opera singer
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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 voice; the vocal range in which this singer sings.Opera Roles: expects Opera Role (in the Opera domain)...
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Emma Abbott (December 9, 1850 – January 5, 1891), American opera singer, was born in Chicago, Illinois. She made her debut as a guitar player and singer in Peoria, Illinois in 1859. She met Clara Louise Kellogg, who encouraged her to study in New...
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| Marietta Alboni | Person |
Marietta Alboni (March 6 1826 – June 23 1894) was a contralto opera singer and pupil of Antonio Bagioli of Cesena Romagna, and later of Gioachino Rossini. She was born at Città di Castello, in the Umbria, and made her début at the age of 15 at...
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| Aksel Schiøtz | Person |
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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| Christina Nilsson |
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Christina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, (August 20, 1843 – November 20, 1921) was a Swedish opera soprano.
She was born Kristina Jonasdotter in the village of Sjöabol, near Växjö, Småland, to the peasants Jonas Nilsson and Cajsa-Stina...
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| Annely Peebo | Person |
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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| 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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| Francesco Tamagno |
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Francesco Tamagno (28 December 1850 – 31 August 1905) was an Italian opera singer. He was born in Turin.
The most famous dramatic tenor of his age, Tamagno was known for the extreme power of his voice - especially in the upper register - so much so...
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| Lorenzo Salvi | Person | Tenor |
Lorenzo Salvi was a tenor, born in Italy. He, along with several other Italians, took part in the first performance of the Mexican national anthem on September 15, 1854.
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| 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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| Carolyn Watkinson | Person |
The English mezzo-soprano Carolyn Watkinson (born March 19, 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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| Kathleen Battle |
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Kathleen Battle (b. August 13 1948) is an American lyric soprano. She is particularly known for her pure timbre, exceptional technique and musicianship, and ability to connect with her audience.
Battle was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, the youngest of...
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| Anne Brown | Person |
Soprano Anne Wiggins Brown, born August 9, 1912, created the role of Bess in George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess in 1935. She was also a radio and concert star.
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, she trained at Morgan College and then...
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| Nicolai Ghiaurov | Person |
Nicolai Ghiaurov (or Nikolai Gjaurov, ) (September 13, 1929 – June 2 2004) was a Bulgaria opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated...
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| 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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| Adelaide Kemble | Person |
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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| Franz Nachbaur | Person | Tenor |
Franz Nachbaur (1835 – 1902) was a famous German opera tenor. He created the role of Walther von Stolzing in Wagner's Die Meistersinger on 21 June 1868.
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| Anne Sofie von Otter | Person |
Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is an opera singer and concert recitalist. She is particularly known for her trouser role.
von Otter was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was the diplomat Göran von Otter and she grew up in Bonn, London...
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| Adele Addison | Person |
Adele Addison (born July 24, 1925) is an African American opera singer. She is a soprano. She was the singing voice for Bess (played by Dorothy Dandridge) in the 1959 movie Porgy and Bess.
She studied at Westminster Choir College, Princeton...
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| Karita Mattila |
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Karita Mattila (born September 5 1960 in Somero, Finland), is a leading opera soprano.
She won the first Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1983 and graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki where she studied with Liisa Linko-Malmio....
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| 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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| Semiha Berksoy | Person |
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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| Carol Plantamura | Person |
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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| Luigi Alva | Person | 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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| Matthias Goerne | Person |
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...
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| 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, Sam and Jacoba Dresden-Dhont and later french art song with Pierre Bernac. She won the first prize during the Vocal...
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| Harold Blair | Person | Tenor |
Harold Blair AM (13 September 1924 – 21 May 1976) was an Australia tenor and Aboriginal activist.
Blair was born at the Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve, 5km from Murgon in Queensland. His mother was Esther Quinn, a teenage Aboriginal woman. He...
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| Yoko Watanabe | Person |
was a Japan opera 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 Micaela in Carmen, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Marguerite in...
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| Valentin Adamberger | Person |
Valentin Adamberger, also known by his Italian name Adamonti, (1743, Munich – 1803, Vienna) was a German tenor.
Adamonti was a scholar of Valesi (Johannes Walleshauser). Beginning in 1760 he was in attendance on the Bavaria court. In 1762 he sang...
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| Ernst Haefliger | Person | 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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| Kurt Böhme | Person |
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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