Lauritz Melchior

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Works

1

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Type

Person

Country

DK

Active from

1890-03-20

Active to

1973-03-18

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Listeners

750

Total plays

4,574

Lauritz Melchior (March 20, 1890 – March 19, 1973) was a Danish and later American opera singer. He was the pre-eminent Wagnerian tenor of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and has since come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type. Born Lauritz Lebrecht Hommel Melchior in Copenhagen, Denmark, the young Melchior was a boy soprano and amateur singer before starting his first operatic vocal studies under Paul Bang at the Royal Opera School in Copenhagen at the age of 18 in 1908. <a href="h

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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4. Concepts in sumoylation: a decade on

   · 2007 · cited 1,545x

5. Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem-Cell Models for Long-QT Syndrome

   · 2010 · cited 1,080x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Lauritz

Gender

male

Citizenship

Danish Realm

Place of birth

Copenhagen

Place of death

Santa Monica

Occupation

actor

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Ingenio et arti

Student of

Anna von Mildenburg

Genre

opera

Instrument

voice

Image

Lauritz Melchior LCCN2014719088 (cropped).jpg

Voice type

Heldentenor

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