Alfredo Kraus Trujillo ( Spanish: Alfredo Kraus Trujillo ; November 24, 1927 , Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Canary Islands , Spain - September 10, 1999 , Madrid , Spain ) - Spanish singer (lyric tenor). Brother of the Spanish opera singer (1926-2016).
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| Date of Birth | November 24, 1927 | ||||||
| Place of Birth | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Spain | ||||||
| Date of death | September 10, 1999 (71 years old) | ||||||
| Place of death | Madrid , Spain | ||||||
| A country |  Spain | ||||||
| Professions | singer music teacher | ||||||
| Singing voice | lyric tenor | ||||||
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Biography
Born in a mixed family: mother is Spanish, father is Austrian. He began studying piano music, but while still participating in the school choir he became interested in vocals, deciding to become a professional singer. Studied in Milan with Mercedes Llopart . The debut on the opera stage took place in 1956 at the Cairo Real Theater in the part of the Duke of Mantua (Verdi's Rigoletto ). He has performed at many theaters in the world, such as: National Theater of San Carlos , Covent Garden , La Scala , Chicago Lyric Opera , Metropolitan Opera , Colon , Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theater . He was engaged in teaching at first in Rome , and later became a professor at the Madrid Conservatory . Among the students are Carlos Marin , Marios Frangoulis , Giuseppe Filianoti and others.
Parties
- " Don Giovanni " by Mozart - Don Ottavio
- Mozart- Ferrando 's “ Everybody Does It”
- " Barber of Seville " Rossini - Almaviva
- Vervi 's La Traviata - Alfred
- Rigoletto Verdi - Duke of Mantua
- Falstaff Verdi - Fenton
- " Faust " Gounod - Faust
- Romeo and Juliet Gounod - Romeo
- " Manon " Massenet - De Grieux
- Werther Massenet - Werther
- " Love drink " Donizetti - Nemorino
- Don Pasquale Donizetti - Ernesto
- Lucretia Borgia Donizetti - Gennaro
- Lucia di Lammermoor Donizetti - Edgardo
- “ Favorite ” Donizetti - Ferdinand
- " Daughter of the Regiment " Donizetti - Tonio
- “ Linda di Chamuni ” Donizetti - Carlo
- Somnambulist Bellini - Elvino
- The Puritans Bellini - Arthur Talbot
- The Marina by - Jorge
- “ Seekers of Pearls ” Bizet - Nadir
- Perth Beauty Bizet - Henry Smith
- Offenbach 's Tales of Hoffmann - Hoffmann
- Mephistopheles Boyto - Faust
- Lakme Delibes - Gerald
- “ Dumb of Portici ” Obera - Alphonse
Rewards
- 1981 - Order of the Legion of Honor
- 1982/1983 Franco Abbiati Prize
- 1991 - Prize of the Princess of Asturias in the field of art
- 1996 - Order of Alfonso X the Wise
- Order of Isabella the Catholic
Literature
- Musical Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. G.V. Keldysh. - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1990. - p. 276 - ISBN 5-85270-033-9
Links
- Alfredo Kraus at Allmusic
- Alfredo Kraus on the Internet Movie Database
- Alfredo Kraus at the KinoPoisk website