Richard Tucker ( born Richard Tucker , originally named Rubin Ticker ; August 28, 1913 , Brooklyn - January 8, 1975 , Kalamazoo ) is an American opera singer (tenor).
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Biography
Richard Tucker was born under the name Rivne (later Rubin) Ticker in Brooklyn in a large family of recent immigrants from Sokiryan of the Khotinsky district of the Bessarabian province . [4] [5] [6] [7] His parents, Srul and Fanya-Tsipa Ticker, settled in Brooklyn two years before his birth in 1911 and he became their only child born in the New World. When the child went to school, the whole family changed their name to Tucker. He showed early musical abilities and as a child began taking lessons from cantor Samuel Weisser in the synagogue Tifereth Israel on the lower East Side of Manhattan . Starting as an assistant cantor back in his school years, he was soon hired for a temporary job at the Temple Emanuel synagogue in Passaic, New Jersey, and finally got the final position as cantor of the Temple Adath Israel synagogue in the Bronx . In June 1943, he was offered the position of cantor of the prestigious Brooklyn Jewish Center, but all these years he had to work part time at the Reliable Silk Company in Manhattan's Sewing Quarter .
In 1936, Richard Tucker married Sarah Perelmut, a sister who had already gained some fame for opera tenor Jan Pierce . Although the latter did not see singing talent in Tucker, he introduced him to conductor Zawl Zilberts , who began to prepare the beginning cantor for an opera career. Soon he was noticed by Paul Althouse , who became Tucker's main musical teacher. In 1941, Richard Tucker participated in his first and unsuccessful audition at the Metropolitan Opera . However, he was interested in the company's chief manager Edward Johnson, who, after an unannounced visit to the Brooklyn Jewish Center, offered the young cantor a new audition and contract.
The debut of Richard Tucker at the Metropolitan Opera took place on January 25, 1945 in the role of Enzo in the “Mona Lisa” (conductor Emil Cooper ). It began Tucker's thirty-year career as a leading performer of the Italian repertoire at the Metropolitan Opera. Over the following years, from a lyric tenor, his voice grew into a lyric-dramatic tenor (spinto), which expanded his repertoire. The peak of his career, a number of critics consider the title role in the opera Andre Chenier . Throughout his opera career, Tucker continued to serve as cantor for major Jewish holidays in several New York synagogues and recorded a series of long-playing records of liturgical music accompanied and arranged by an orchestra conducted by Sholom Secunda . In the last years of his life, he participated in recitals with baritone Robert Merrill and died on January 8, 1975 from a heart attack before starting one of such recitals in Kalamazoo . [8] Farewell to the artist took place on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. [9]
Shortly after his death in New York, a support fund for beginner opera singers of his name ( Richard Tucker Music Foundation ) was founded. The square on Broadway opposite the Metropolitan Opera now bears his name (Richard Tucker Square), a bust of the singer is installed next to the theater on Lincoln Square . [ten]
Discography
By the centenary of the birth of Richard Tucker, Sony Classics has released two gift collections (box sets) of his studio albums, in original envelopes with a new remastering.
- Richard Tucker. The Song and Cantorial Collection (14 CDs)
- Songs from Sunny Italy (1950)
- Sorrento (1950-1958)
- The Fabulous Voice of Richard Tucker (1962)
- Vienna, My City of Dreams (1963)
- The Art of Bel Canto (1964)
- The Soul of Italy (1965)
- What Now My Love (1966)
- Cantorial Jewels: Sholom Secunda & Zavel Zilberts (1953)
- Israel Songs - Goldfaden Songs (songs by I. Miron, I. Haggiz, J. Grossman, D. Zahavi and M. Vilensky, as well as arias from the opposites Avrum Goldfaden in the arrangements of Sholom Secunda ; Hebrew , Yiddish , 1956)
- Welcoming the Sabbath (A Friday Evening Service, 1956)
- Kol Nidre Service (with Shofar, 1959)
- Passover Seder Festival (Sholom Secunda, 1962)
- Hatikva! Richard Tucker Sings Great Jewish Favorites (1966-1969)
- Inauguration Concert of Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall (1962)
- Richard Tucker. The Opera Recital Album Collection (10 CDs)
- Verdi Duets (1948)
- Great Tenor Arias (1949)
- Celebrated Tenor Arias (1947-1953)
- Great Love Duets (1953-1955)
- Starring Richard Tucker (1955)
- Richard Tucker Sings Puccini (1959)
- Great Duets from Verdi Operas (1962)
- Richard Tucker Sings Arias from 10 Verdi Operas (1964)
- A Treasury of French Opera Arias (1966)
- Celeste Aida: The World's Favorite Tenor Arias (1964-1967)
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Great Tenor Richard Tucker To Sing Here Tuesday (The Telegraph, April 22 1972)
- ↑ The Museum of Family History
- ↑ Ellis Island Passenger Records (Ticker)
- ↑ One of a Golden Dozen: Richard Tucker
- ↑ Richard Tucker - America's idol: On the 100th anniversary of the great singer
- ↑ “The Great, Left ...” - Richard Tucker Archived copy of April 27, 2014 on the Wayback Machine : In the series of programs “The Great, Left ...” Lyubov Kazarnovskaya and Robert Roscik recall one of the most outstanding tenors of the 20th century - American singer Richard Tucker ...
- ↑ N. Sagalovsky “Richard Tucker”