Nicolai Gedda RIP

[CallMePaul]

This sad news was announced on Breakfast this morning. He died in Switzerland aged 91 - as I write I have no further details but I imagine that obits will be published soon.

Gedda had an enormous repertoire ranging from Italian opera to Russian art song to the title role in The Dream of Gerontius, a range that few if any tenors have matched or are likely to match.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A good innings, and a fine artist.

[gurnemanz]

A good innings, and a fine artist.

I'll second that. I hadn't realised the depth and breadth of his contribution until I got the EMI Icon box a few years ago - a wide range of opera and operetta, of course, also a good Schöne Müllerin and fine French and Russian song recitals. Still available v cheaply.

[Alain Maréchal]

Le Monde reports that he died a month ago, and the announcement was delayed according to his wishes.

http://www.lemonde.fr/musiques/article/2017/02/10/mort-du-grand-tenor-nicolai-gedda-a-91-ans_5077551_1654986.html

A truly great artist, many of whose whose performances I have been fortunate to attend. A versatile linguist with impeccable vocal style, and a convincing actor free of histrionics.

[Stanfordian]

This sad news was announced on Breakfast this morning. He died in Switzerland aged 91 - as I write I have no further details but I imagine that obits will be published soon.

Gedda had an enormous repertoire ranging from Italian opera to Russian art song to the title role in The Dream of Gerontius, a range that few if any tenors have matched or are likely to match.

Sad news. A true great of the opera world. RIP Nicolai.

[Richard Tarleton]

He stars on the very first complete opera set I bought in the late 60s, Flotow's Marta, with Rothenberger, Fassbender and Prey, cond Heger. Here he is in the tenor's big number, Ach so fromm, and here with Anneliese Rothenberger singing Letzte Rose (The Last Rose of Summer) from Act 2.

[BBMmk2]

Very sad. He was one of my favourite singers. RIP

[Petrushka]

Gedda's extraordinary facility with languages was another aspect of his art that shouldn't be forgotten.

I'm especially fond of his Gabriel von Eisenstein in the Boskovsky recording of Die Fledermaus.

[Beef Oven!]

Truly great artist. Sad. RIP