Alberto Remedios was a British operatic tenor, especially noted for his interpretations of Wagner's heldentenor roles.
14 Facts About Alberto Remedios
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Alberto Remedios was born in Liverpool and began his working life as a shipyard welder.
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Alberto Remedios left school at 15 to play football semi-professionally for New Brighton at Wallasey.
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Alberto Remedios studied singing with Edwin Francis, who taught Rita Hunter.
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Alberto Remedios led by Richard Bonynge included Lauris Elms, John Alexander, and Luciano Pavarotti.
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Alberto Remedios, dining in an Italian restaurant in London was offered a free meal if he sang; fortuitously Joan Sutherland was in the restaurant that night.
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Alberto Remedios is especially remembered for his performances in Wagner, especially as Siegfried in the Glen Byam Shaw production of The Ring, conducted by Reginald Goodall.
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Alberto Remedios was the first English tenor to sing Siegfried at Covent Garden since Walter Widdop in the 1930s.
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Alberto Remedios was memorable as Walther von Stolzing in the ground-breaking 1968 Sadler's Wells The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, conducted by Reginald Goodall.
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Alberto Remedios sang the role of Mark in the first recording of Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage.
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Alberto Remedios performed in many of the world's leading operatic venues, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Seattle, Frankfurt, San Francisco and Buenos Aires.
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Alberto Remedios was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1976 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.
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Alberto Remedios married his second wife, Judy Hosken, an Australian dancer, in 1965.
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Alberto Remedios died in Sydney on 11 June 2016, aged 81.