Thursday, September 22, 2022

Nicolae Leonard (Tenor) (Galați December 13, 1886 - Câmpulung December 24, 1928)

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  Nicknamed "The Prince of Operetta", Nicolae Leonard or Nae Leonard, the son of the locomotive driver from Galati Constantin Nae ...
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Thursday, August 18, 2022

Arnaldo Matteucci (Tenor)

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  His career lasted around 10 years, which he spent mostly at the Italian provincial opera houses. He went abroad only to appear at the Teat...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

Enzo Bannino (Tenor)

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  Probably he made his debut in 1910. It seems to me, that his career was limited by appearances only in Buenos Ayres, Montevideo and San Pa...
Sunday, October 10, 2021

Giuseppe Micheli (Tenor)

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  Giuseppe Micheli made his debut in 1909. During his career he rarely made guest appearances abroad (Alessandria 1909/1910 season) and most...
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Sunday, May 30, 2021

Alexander Ilyich Mozzhukhin (Bass) (Village Sergievka, Saratov Province, Russian Empire August 11, 1878 (or March 11 (23), 1879) - AsnièreS-Sur-Seine, Near Paris July 1, 1952)

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  He was Born into a peasant family. He graduated from a theological school and a theological seminary in Penza. In 1900 he entered the Mosc...

Einar Nørby (Bass-Baritone) (Thisted, Denmark May 8, 1896 - Copenhagen, Denmark January 12, 1983)

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  Originally he was employed in the state telegraph service. His voice was noticed in an amateur competition. Then he trained as a singer in...
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Rudolf Krasa (Bass-Baritone) (Loket, Czech Republic 16. 1. 1859 – Berlin, Germany 24. 7. 1936)

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  His voice was discovered when, after his service as an officer in the Austrian artillery, he took part in a concert of the German students...

Hermann Gallos (Tenor) (Vienna, Austria 21 January 1886 – Vienna, Austria 20 February 1957)

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  First he studied law at the University of Vienna, but also took singing lessons at the Vienna Conservatory with Philipp Forstén. He joined...

Max Meili (Tenor) (Winterthur, Switzerland 11 December 1899 - Zürich, Switzerland 17 March 1970)

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  His voice was trained by the famous Felix von Kraus in Munich. The artist was then able to distinguish himself as a concert and oratorio s...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Maria Ivogün (Soprano) (Budapest, Hungary 18 November 1891 – Beatenberg, Switzerland 3 October 1987)

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  Her real name Maria Kempner was shortened to "Ivogün" after the maiden name of her mother, the operetta singer I (da) vo (n) Gün...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Eduard Habich (Baritone) (Kassel, Germany Sept. 3, 1880 - Berlin, Germany March 15, 1960)

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He attended the Raff Conservatory in Frankfurt a.M., where he was a student of Max Fleisch. He began his stage career in the 1904-190...
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Saturday, July 4, 2020

Enrico Nani (Baritone) (Parma 1873 - Rome 1940)

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I wish to thank Jose Almeida for providing me photo of Enrico Nani
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Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Mary C. Carbone (aka Marie Montain) “She Lived for Her Music”

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Mary C. Carbone (aka Marie Montain) “She Lived for Her Music” Short Bio Mary C. Carbone was born in the Wyoming mining  c...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Sara Melita (Soprano)

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She came from Trecastle (South Wales).  Her real name was Sara Davies   [ Davies is a very common family name in Wales. ] From the BBC...

Charles Moorhouse (Baritone)

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He performed with the Moody Manners, Harrison Frewin and Carl Rosa opera companies between 1908 and at least 1917. I wish to than...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Dan Beddoe (Dan Theophilus Beddoe) (Tenor) (Aberdare, Wales, UK March 16th 1863 - New York, USA December 1937)

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He won a gold medal in a singing competition in Wales (1882). He emigrated to North America and studied singing first in Pittsburgh a...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Licinio Francardi (Tenor) (Pitigliano December 13, 1920 – Roma March 31, 1994)

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He was the third of four children, who was born into a family of barber. In 1939 he began his education at the school of Manfredo Polv...

Ermanno Lorenzi (Tenor)

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He made guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera, at the Teatro alla Scala and sang in many other major Italian opera houses a...

Miroslav Staryckyj (Tenor) (also known as Miroslav Grygorovich Skala-sStaryckyj; alias Miro Skala) (Skala-Podilska, now Borshchiv district of Ternopil region, Ukraine June 13, 1909 - Epine, Suburb of Paris, France February 17, 1969)

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He studied in high schools in the cities of Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk) and Lviv. Then he graduated from the Higher Music Institu...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Harry Da Garmo (Baritone) (1887 - 1919)

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He was the son of a Spaniard and an English woman. He came to Germany to study medicine, where his voice was discovered. He made hi...
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