Jon Vickers
Jonathan Stewart Vickers (October 29, 1926 – July 10, 2015), known professionally as Jon Vickers, was a world renowned Canadian heldentenor. In 1957 Vickers joined London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden company. In 1960 he joined the Metropolitan Opera. Vickers became world-famous for a wide range of German, French, and Italian roles, but especially in the Wagner tenor roles in Die Walkure, Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal and in Beethoven's Fidelio. He was the foremost Wagner tenor of his era. Vickers performed operas with prominent conductors such as Otto Klemperer, Herbert von Karajan, Sir Colin Davis, Hans Knappertsbusch, and Sir Thomas Beecham. With Karajan he recorded several operas accompanied by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Genre: classical-tenor, opera, wagnerian-singing
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Top Tracks
- Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": IV. Presto - Allegro assai
- Otello, Act II: Talor vedeste...Sì, pel ciel
- O süsseste Wonne! Seligstes Weib! ... Siegmund, den Wälsung, siehst du, Weib! (combined tracks)
- Samson et Dalila (2001 Digital Remaster), Act 2, Scene 3: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix (Dalila/Samson)
- Otello (1988 Digital Remaster), ATTO QUARTO, Terza e quarta scena: Niun mi tema (Otello/Cassio/Lodovico/Montano)
- Carmen, WD 31, Act II: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (Flower Song)
- Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, Act II Scene 3: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix (Dalila/Samson)
- Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, Act 2, Scene 3: Air. "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" (Dalila, Samson)
- Die Walküre, WWV 86B / Act 1: "Siegmund heiß ich und Siegmund bin ich"
- Die Walküre, Act I Scene 2: Müd am Herd fand ich den Mann
- Die Walküre, Act I Scene 1: Einen Unseligen labtest du
- Die Walküre, Act I Scene 1: Wes Herd dies auch sei, hier muss ich rasten – Kühlende Labung gab mir der Quell
- Die Walküre, Act I Scene 3: Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater
- Carmen, Act 2: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée
- Verdi: Otello: Ave Maria, piena di grazia - Act Four
- Medea (Medee) (Sung in Italian): Act III: Oh Dei, pieta di noi! (Chorus, Medea)
- Medea (Medee) (Sung in Italian): Act I: Nemici senza cor (Medea, Giasone)
- Otello, Act I: Già nella notte densa
- Otello, Act I: Esultate!
- Les Troyens / Act 4: No. 37 Duo: "Nuit d'ivresse et d'extase"
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