Tag Archives: Nicolai Gedda
Nicolai Gedda 1925-2017
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 21st February 2017Nicolai Gedda died this month at age 91. The Swedish singer was one of the great tenors of the middle part of the last century. His best years overlapped the careers of an extraordinarily large number of great tenors. When he started singing professionally Jussi Björling, Richard Tucker, Mario Del Monaco, and Giuseppe Di Stefano were…
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I Puritani at the Met/ Nicolai Gedda Dies
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 11th February 2017Last night the Met presented its first performance of its revival of Bellini’s I Puritani. This show was much anticipated mainly because of Javier Camarena’s first appearance in New York as Arturo, one of opera’s most challenging roles. I listened to the Sirius broadcast of the opera and thus can only comment on the music…
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