Historic Opera
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Udovich, Lucilla: Soprano (Denver, CO: 7
Sep 1930 - Rome: 23 Sep 1999). Debut at the Florence May Festival in
Spontini's Agnese di Hohenstaufen. Appeared in Rome,
Florence, Venice, Bologna, Paris, London, Buenos Aires, Mexico City.
Career cut short by a degenerative spinal condition, and she died of
complications resulting from a fall.
Ugalde, Delphine [Beaucé]: French soprano (3 Dec
1829 - 19 Jul 1910): Operetta star, also managed the
Bouffes-Parisiens.
Ugalde, Marguerite: French soprano (1862 - ?):
Created Nicklausse (Contes d'Hoffmann), and roles in Bois
and Les Cent Jours. Daughter of above.
Uhde, Hermann: German bass-baritone (20 Jul 1914 - 10 Oct 1965)
Uhl, Fritz: Austrian tenor (2 Apr 1928)
Ulfung, Ragnar: Norwegian tenor (28 Feb 1927)
Unger, Caroline [Ungher]: Hungarian contralto (29 Oct
1803 - 23 Mar 1877)
Unger, Georg: German tenor: (6 Mar 1837 - 2 Feb 1887)
Unger, Gerhard: German tenor (26 Nov 1916)
Uppman, Theodor: American baritone (12 Jan 1920); Met
Opera debut (27 Nov 1953) as Pelléas.
Urbano, Umberto: Italian baritone (Livorno: 16 Oct 1885 - Rome: 16 June 1969).
Urlus, Jacques:
Dutch tenor (9 Jan 1867 - 6 Jun 1935): Met Opera
debut as Tristan (8 Feb 1913)
Ursuleac, Viorica: Soprano (26 Mar 1894-1985)
Utor, Manuel (Barcelona, 24
Jul 1862
- 20 Mar 1939 ):
Spanish tenor.
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Vaguet, Albert: Tenor (15 Jun 1865-1943)
Valdengo, Giuseppe: Italian baritone (24 May 1914 -
?): Parma (1936); La Scala (1939); NY City Opera (1946); Met (1947)
Valente, Benita: American soprano (19 Oct 1939): Met debut 22 Sep
1973.
Valero, Fernando: Italian tenor (6 Dec 1854 - Feb 1914)
Vallandri, Aline: French soprano (1878 - 30 Mar 1952): Opera-Comique
debut 18 Sep 1904 in Mireille.
Valleria, Alwina: Soprano (12 Oct 1848-1925)
Valletti, Cesare: Tenor (18 Dec 1922 - 13 May 2000): Debut 1947 Bari
- Traviata. Met debut 10 Dec 1953: Don Ottavio.
Vallin, Ninon: French soprano ( 9 Sep 1886- 22 Nov 1961): Stellar
career.
Vally, Andrée: Soprano ( ): Paris Opéra 1913.
Valvich, Mikhail I.
Van Allan, Richard: English bass (28 May 1935)
Van Artner: Josephine: ( )
Van Dam, Jose: Bass-baritone (25 Aug 1940)
Van Dresser, Marcia: American soprano (4 Dec 1877 -
11 Jul 1937): Met (1903+); Dresden (1907); Frankfurt (1911+);
Chicago (1915+).
Van Dyck, Ernest: Tenor (2 Apr 1861- 31 Aug 1923): Debut as
Lohengrin (3 May 1887). Met debut (29 Nov 1898).
Van Engen, Michael: American bass-baritone (? - 17 Jul 1994)
Vannuccini, Emilio ( ):
Van Parys. Mdm: Mezzo-soprano ( ): Paris Opéra 1901
Van Rooy, Anton: Dutch baritone (1 Jan 1870 - 28 Nov 1932): Bayreuth
(1897+); Met debut (14 Dec 1898); Covent Garden; Frankfurt.
Vanzo, Alain: French
tenor (1928 - 27 Jan 2002): Born in Monte Carlo as Fernand Albert
Vanzo. Died from complications following a stroke. Paris opera
houses, Vienna, Metropolitan (briefly), Covent Garden, San
Francisco, etc. Significant French tenor.
Varady, Julia: Rumanian soprano (1 Sep 1941)
Varesi, Felice: French-Italian baritone (1813 - 13
Mar 1889): Created title roles in Verdi's Macbeth and Rigoletto.
First Germont (Traviata)
Varnay, Astrid: Swedish soprano (25 Apr 1918): Met debut (6 Dec
1941).
Varnier, Mdm: Soprano ( ): Paris Opéra in 1906.
Small roles.
Vautier, Mdm: Contralto ( ): Paris Opéra debut 3 Sep
1884 in Prophète.
Vavich, Mikhail L. ( ):
Veasey, Josephine: English mezzo-soprano (10 Jul
1930): Met Opera debut 22 Nov 1968 as Fricka (Rheingold).
Vecart, Raymonde: Soprano ( ): Paris Opéra debut 30
Dec 1917 as Gilda in Rigoletto.
Vedernikov, Alexander: Russian bass (23 Dec 1927)
Velis, Andrea: American tenor (7 Jun 1932 - 4 Oct
1994) 1,867 performances at the Met (6th highest).
Venerandi, Pietro ( ): Tenor:
Ventura, Elvino ( ): Tenor
Vere, Clémentine Duchene de [Wood de Vere]: French
soprano (12 Dec 1864 - 19 Jan 1954): Met debut 2 Feb 1896 as
Marguerite in Faust.
Vergnet, Edmond-Alphonse-Jean: French tenor (4 Jul
1850 - 25 Feb 1904): Created Jean in Massenet's Hérodiade;
Admeto in Catalani's Dejanice.
Verlet, Alice: Belgian soprano (1873-?): Debut at the
Salle Favart on 14 Jan 1896 as Jeannette in Les Noces de
Jeannette.
Verrett, Shirley: American soprano (31 May 1931): Met Opera debut
(21 Sep 1968) as Carmen.
Verriotis, Mary
Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth: Contralto (1787- 8 Aug 1856)
Viafora, Gina:
Soprano ( )
Viardot-Garcia, Pauline: French mezzo-soprano (18 Jul 1821-1910):
Created Fidès (Le Prophète); Created Sapho; First London
Azucena.
Vichey, Luben: Bulgarian/American bass (18 Jul 1912-7 Jan 1995)
Vickers, Jon: Canadian tenor (29 Oct 1926): Met Opera debut (17 Jan
1960) as Canio.
Vidal, Renée: Mezzo-soprano ( ): Paris Opéra debut
on 2 Oct 1889 as Amneris in Aida.
Viglione-Borghese, Domenico ( ):
Vignas, Francesco: Spanish tenor (27 Mar 1863 - 14 Jul 1933): First
English Turiddu. Married to mezzo Giulia Novelli.
Vilma, Mdm: Soprano ( ): Paris Opéra 1899.
Vinay, Ramón: Chilean tenor (31 Aug 1912 - 4 Jan 1996)
Vincent, Mdm: Soprano ( ): Paris Opéra debut as
Comtesse in Rigoletto on 23 Jan 1892.
Vinci, Marguerite: Mezzo-soprano ( ): Paris Opéra
debut as Taanach in Salammbo on 25 May 1906.
Vishnevskaya, Galina: Russian soprano (25 Oct 1926): Married to
cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
Visconti, Raymonde: French soprano (1890 - ?)
Vitta, Primo ( ):
Vix, Geneviève: French soprano (31 Dec 1879 – 25 Aug 1939): Paris
Opéra debut 1905 in the premiere there of Daria. For the
Paris Opéra she created Catharine in La Megere approvoisee
(1925), Salome (1926); and at the Opera-Comique, La Tisbe in Angelo
(1928). Chicago Opera debut as manon (1 Dec 1917).
Vogelstrom, Fritz: Tenor (4 Nov 1882-1963)
Vogl, Heinrich: ( )
Vogl, Johann Michael: Austrian baritone (10 Aug 1768
- 19 Nov 1840)
Volker, Franz ( ):
Vokler, Franz: German tenor (31 Mar 1899 - 5 Dec
1965)
Von Bary, Alfred: Tenor (18 Jan 1873-1926)
Von Scheidt, Julius ( ):
Von Stade, Frederica: American mezzo-soprano (1 Jun 1945):
"Flicka"
Votipka, Thelma:
American soprano (Cleveland: 20 Dec 1906 - 24 Oct 1972): Debut (16
Dec 1935) as Flora (Traviata). Thirty-three operas, 1,003
performances.
Vroons, Frans: Dutch tenor (28 Apr 1911)
Vuillaume, Marie: Soprano ( ): Paris Opéra debut 17
Aug 1908 as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette.
Vyvyan, Jennifer: English soprano (13 Mar 1925 - 28
Mar 1974)