Melanie Kurt
Lily Pons
Antonio Magini Coletti
Fritzi Jokl
Sabine Kalter
Peter Lindroos
Oreste Kirkop
Else Gentner-Fischer
Emma Calvé
Richard Crooks
Renata Scotto
Deon van der Walt
As a boy, Thill had a powerful voice and on being called into the French Army in 1916 he entertained his fellow soldiers in my own way, with lots of enthusiasm and little technique. After two years of study he went to Naples in 1921 and studied with Fernando De Lucia. In later years, while waiting to go on stage, he would regularly muse what would De Lucia think He made his professional debut in 1924 and went on to continued success in a long career.
Giuseppe Danise
Anatoly Orfenov
Aureliano Pertile
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
Janine Micheau
Francesco Merli

Biographies

  • Roberto Alagna

    Roberto Alagna

    French tenor Roberto Alagna has for long belonged to the most coveted opera singers world wide and has been widely recognized as the most important tenor in the last decade of the 20th century. French with Sicilian origins, Roberto Alagna was born in Paris (Clichy-sous-Bois) …

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Articles, Interviews & Memories

  • Beniamino Gigli at the piano

    An Artistic Home – Beniamino Gigli

    The following is a chapter from Gigli: The Master Tenor, a new English-language biography of the great Italian tenor by the late Colin Bain.  THE ARRIVAL OF Gigli in New York, on October 31st, 1921, marked the beginning of an entirely new chapter in both his …

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  • Javier Camanera

    Sitting Down with tenor Javier Camarena

    Tenor Javier Camarena is appearing in Georges Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers at the Los Angeles Opera from October 7 to October 28. Camarena sings the tenor role of Nadir, Nino Machaidze sings Leila, Alfredo Daza is Zurga, and Nicholas Brownlee is Nourabad. Plácido Domingo and …

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Focus Feature

Five Operas Worth Re-Discovering

Pietro Mascagni: Silvano

Quality certainly isn’t the only criterion that decides whether a work of art survives or not: luck and a few other rather aleatory factors seem to play a major role. In today’s standard repertoires we can find works that should not have survived the decade …

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