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| Alexander Carlos | | basso
[ 1915 - 1991 ]
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| After initial schooling in Mexico City, Switzerland and Berlin, he studied conducting, composition and voice with A.Schadow and finsihed his voice education with Friedrich Schorr in New York. He debuted in 1940 in St. Louis as Monterone in Rigoletto, then Masetto there (1948) and continued with opera performances throughout the Americas until 1948. In 1948 he became a teacher at the State Univerity of Utah and founded an opera company in Salt Lake City, where he staged and conducted more than twenty operas during five seasons. In 1955 he went to Germany, where he started at the Stadttheaters of Münster (Westphalia) and Krefeld, then at the State Theater of Hannover, then from 1958 to 1961 at the Opera of Cologne, where he sang in the premiere of Prokofieff's The Fiery Angel (1960). Having guested often at the Stuttgart State Opera in 1961 he became a member of that company where he remained untill 1975. He continued to perform as a guest at the operas of Cologne, Munich and Düsseldorf. He sang in the world premiere of P. Ronnefeld's opera Die Ameise at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg in 1961. He was heard as Mandryka at the Maggio Musicale Firenze (1961) and at Glyndebourne (1966), and also sang at the Edinburgh Festival. He appeared at Berlin, at the Théâtre de la Monnaie Brussels and at the Viennese State Opera, and at Bayreuth (1963-64) as Beckmesser. In 1965 he was Jochanaan for the Grand Opéra Paris. On 24 March 1968, he created the title-role in the world premiere of Carl Orff's Prometheus at Stuttgart and on 20 May 1961 he participated in the first performance of H.W. Henze's Elegie für junge Liebende at the Schwetzingen festival, then sang it for Glyndebourne. Among his many roles were Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Wotan, Wanderer and Gunther in The Ring, Borromeo in Pfitzner's Palestrina, Busoni's Faust, Moses (Moses and Aron) and Simon Boccanegra. He also taught at the Salzburger Mozarteum. Recordings: DGG (Antigonae, Ödipus der Tyrann), EJS, Harmonia Mundi, Music and Arts |
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