This is not a biography of the Jewish tenor. Just some personal thoughts on a few interesting aspects. Those interested in a biographical article and an outstanding discography better purchase the June 2000 issue of The Record Collector where your servant and Hansfried Sieben devoted more than sixty small print pages to the tenor. Those able to read German can still buy Alfred Fasbind’s biography published at the Schweizer Verlagshaus in Zürich 1992. It is still available in some German bookshops and maybe with the author himself (Rosenbergstrasse 16, 8630 Rüti, Switzerland).
THE RISE OF NEAPOLITAN COMIC OPERA
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Andrew Patner Reviews Don Giovanni at the Lyric Opera
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FT Reviews The Greek Passion
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FT Reviews Tobias and the Angel
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FT Reviews LA Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos
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