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Turkish singer Zeki Müren died of a heart attack during a live performance on stage at TRT İzmir Television. Opera singer Richard Versalle died on stage at the Metropolitan Opera during the company's première performance of The Makropulos Case when he suffered a heart attack while standing on a sliding ladder attached to a file cabinet. He ...
The list spans from operatic sopranos active in the first operas of the late 16th century to singers currently performing. Singers who have recorded opera arias or sung them in concert but have never performed in an opera are not included in this list. Singers are sorted by their year of birth.
Luciano Pavarotti OMRI (/ ˌ p æ v ə ˈ r ɒ t i /, US also / ˌ p ɑː v-/, Italian: [luˈtʃaːno pavaˈrɔtti]; 12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed tenors of all time.
This is a list of the singers, conductors, and dancers who have appeared in at least 100 performances at the Metropolitan Opera, last updated March 17, 2024. Performers are listed by the number of the performances they have appeared in as found at the Metropolitan Opera Archives. [ 1 ]
Scottish singer [83] Matti Lehtinen: 1922–2022: 100: Finnish baritone singer. [84] Conrad Leonard: 1898–2003: 104: British pianist and composer [85] María Teresa Linares Savio: 1920–2021: 100: Cuban musicologist [86] [87] Gisela Litz: 1922–2023: 100: German contralto opera singer [88] Huey Long: 1904–2009: 105: American jazz singer ...
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) Shostakovich's most famous opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, a violent love story set in provincial Russia, scandalised Soviet authorities. He later produced a revised version, Katerina Ismailova. Nevertheless, the original became one of the most performed operatic works of the 20th century.
A number of Russian opera singers rose to fame already in the 18th century, but it was the late 19th and the 20th centuries that saw the appearance of many world-renown, well-remembered and still popular soloists, including Leonid Sobinov, Galina Vishnevskaya and, of course, Feodor Chaliapin, the greatest bass of all time.
also: Singers: Singers by genre: Opera singers. Subcategories. This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total. ...