biography
pronunciation:
[kroh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1927–99)
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| biography:
| Tenor, born in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. He made his debút in Turin in 1956 and from 1961 performed in the principal theatres of Europe. From 1965 he was official artiste of the Metropolitan in New York. In a carefully selected repertoire, he shone in French opera (Faust, Manon, Romeo and Juliet, Tales from Hoffmann) and in Italian belcanto (La favorita, Lucia de Lammermoor, La Traviata and Rigoletto), in addition to the works of Werther and Massenet, and in zarzuelas. |
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