Richard Tucker
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Biography
[Edit]Richard Tucker is today primarily associated with the history of opera in America — a highly gifted tenor, he is compared to Franco Corelli in influence and appeal, and classed with people like Alfredo Kraus and Nicolai Gedda. But Tucker, as a Jewish American who came to music from a religious background, had an output different from all of those others, and, ironically, was just as well known in the United States — and perhaps even more beloved — for that other side of his work. When he sang the part of Radames in Verdi's Aida as conducted by Toscanini on the NBC television network, it was because he was arguably the supreme Verdi tenor of his generation, and this broadcast was a piece of operatic, musical, and television history in the making; but Jewish audiences took a special pride in his selection for the role in the concert performance (for which he would have been utterly unsuited physically, in an actual production of the opera) because of whence he came.
He was born in New York, and at age six joined the choir of an Orthodox Jewish synogogue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan as a boy alto. Over the next eight years, he sang at weddings and other events and became steeped in Jewish liturgy and the musical traditions of the synogogue — only the inevitable change to his voice interrupted his vocalizing, and from ages 14 through 18 he abandoned singing. By the time he reached 18, however, his adult voice had settled into a rich tenor, and it was in that capacity that he returned to his old synogogue. He also studied cantorial music with Cantor Weisser, Zavel Zilberts, and Cantor J. Mirsky, all eminent teachers, and at age 22 he was a cantor at a synogogue in New York. He subsequently sang at Temple Emanuel in Passaic, NJ, Temple Adath Israel in the Bronx, and the Brooklyn Jewish Center in Brooklyn, NY. But he overlapped his cantorial work with the study of operatic singing and repertory, principally with Paul Althouse, himself a former tenor with the Metropolitan Opera. It was Althouse who, in 1944, when Tucker was 29 years old, arranged for Edward Johnson, the general director of the Met, to hear Tucker sing at a service at the Brooklyn synogogue, and what he heard impressed him sufficiently to offer Tucker a contract. He relinquished his position with the synogogue in order to accept, although he vowed never to give up that side of his art, regardless of his professional engagements — and ironically enough, with the Metropolitan Opera as his platform, he became the guest cantor to the world, officiating on the High Holy Days at services across the United States, and recording a then-unique body of cantorial repertory for Columbia Records; many of the early recordings were done in collaboration with conductor Sholom Secunda. His later recordings also included lighter fare, including stage work by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (obviously with Fiddler on the Roof looming large in the selection). His more than 600 performances at the Met were, to at least some of his admirers, only icing on the cake next to his religious and other Jewish repertory, which also came to encompass such little-known works as Abraham Goldfaden's operetta-like work for the Yiddish theater. Meanwhile, Tucker sang around the world, his debut in Italy coming in the same production in which Maria Callas made her debut; he sang at Covent Garden in 1957, and in Vienna in 1958, and at La Scala in Milan in 1969. Tucker remained uniquely popular in America, however, and even more so in New York. Alas, because operatic recording was limited in the United States during his prime years, there are relatively few examples of his work in this area in complete operas during his first 15 years, before he reached his fifties — the Aida with Toscanini and some other live performances with the Maestro, and an English-language version of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte from the start of the 1950s capture his youthful sound, and otherwise there are some later operatic recordings, and some Mahler with Leonard Bernstein on Columbia, all from the 1960s; mostly, however, he was represented by recitals, and his cantorial and other Jewish-themed recordings, relatively few of which have surfaced on CD. He passed away in 1975 at age 61. His funeral service was held on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, and in his memory the Richard Tucker Foundation awards a prize each year to a promising potential opera star.
Title: Richard Tucker and Eileen Farrell - Great Duets from Verdi Operas
Artist: Richard Tucker
Genre:
Title: Richard Tucker Sings Arias from 10 Verdi Operas
Artist: Nello Santi, Richard Tucker, Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Genre: World Music, Opera
Title: Richard Tucker Sings Puccini
Artist: Richard Tucker, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Fausto Cleva
Genre: World Music, Opera
Title: Richard Tucker - Songs from Sunny Italy
Artist: Richard Tucker, Alfredo Antonini
Genre: World Music
Title: TAC Show 6: Cantors in Concert (1920-1960)
Artist: Robyn, Sholom Secunda, Nathaniel Shilkret, The Barry Sisters, Richard Tucker, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Studio Orchestra, Abraham Ellstein, Jan Peerce, Alberto Mizrahi, Moishe Oysher, Studio Ensemble, Abraham Nadel Chorus, Joseph Schmidt, Wiliam Robyn, Josef A. Pasternack, Joseph Rosenblatt, Studio Chorus, Yosef Amar, Lind Brothers Trio, Warner S. Bass, David Kusevitsky, George Manos, Jack Barkin, Alfredo Antonini
Genre:
Title: Richard Tucker: Celeste Aida - The World's Favorite Tenor Arias
Artist: Richard Tucker
Genre: Opera
Title: TAC Show 4: Operatic Cantors and Cantors in Opera (1920-1960)
Artist: Anonymous, Sholom Secunda, Richard Tucker, Abraham Ellstein, Jan Peerce, Studio Orchestra, Studio Chorus, Joseph Schmidt, Studio Conductor, Alberto Mizrahi, Warner S. Bass, Jack Barkin, RCA Victor Orchestra, Fausto Cleva, Frieder Weissmann, RCA Victor Chorus, Max Helfman, Abraham Shapiro, Gershon Swet, Halevy Choral Society, Hyman Reznick, Sonia Kass, Chazn Sidney Shicoff
Genre:
Title: Masterworks Heritage: Eileen Farrell Sings Verdi
Artist: Fausto Cleva, Eileen Farrell, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Richard Tucker
Genre: Opera
Title: Richard Tucker - Passover Seder Festival
Artist: Sholom Secunda, Richard Tucker, Alexander D. Richardson
Genre: World Music
Title: Verdi: Rigoletto (Metropolitan Opera)
Artist: Robert Merrill, Roberta Peters, Richard Tucker, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fausto Cleva
Genre: Opera
Title: Verdi: La forza del destino (Live)
Artist: Richard Tucker, Aldo Protti, Fernando Previtali, Gre Brouwenstijn, Virgilio Tavini, Norman Scott, Mignon Dunn, Mario Verazzi, Guerrino Boschetti, Chorus Of The Teatro Colón / Chorus Of The Teatro Colon, Orchestra Of The Teatro Cólon / Orchestra Of The Teatro Colon, Giulio Viamonte
Genre: Opera
Title: Verdi: Rigoletto (Recorded Live 1959)
Artist: Renato Capecchi, Richard Tucker, Gianna D'Angelo
Genre: Opera
Title: Verdi: La Traviata
Artist: Robert Merrill, Anna Moffo, Richard Tucker, Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma, Fernando Previtali
Genre: Opera
Title: Great Duets from Verdi Operas
Artist: Richard Tucker, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Eileen Farrell, Fausto Cleva
Genre:
Title: Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Artist: Richard Tucker, Thelma Votipka, Jean Madeira, Giuseppe Valdengo, The Orchestra, Max Rudolf, Eleanor Staber
Genre: Opera
Title: TAC Show 5: The Cantor in America (1920-1960)
Artist: Anonymous, Sholom Secunda, Richard Tucker, Harold Mooney, Max Janowski, Abraham Ellstein, Jan Peerce, Bas Sheva, Studio Orchestra, Studio Ensemble, Studio Chorus, Leibele Waldman, Alberto Mizrahi, Moishe Oysher, Moshe Koussevitzky, Alan Heatherington, Hyman Reznick, Abraham Nadel Chorus, Joseph Rumshinsky, Israel Schorr, Jacob Goldstein, Martin Baum, Moses J. Silverman, Rose Gross, Samuel Malavsky, Malavsky Family Choir, Harry Cooper
Genre:
Title: Verdi Greatest Hits
Artist: Montserrat Caballé / Montserrat Caballe, Plácido Domingo / Placido Domingo, Robert Shaw, Leontyne Price, James Levine, John Pritchard, Luciano Pavarotti, Robert Merrill, Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Anna Moffo, Jussi Björling / Jussi Bjorling, Richard Tucker, Ileana Cotrubas, Enrico Caruso, Zubin Mehta, Fernando Previtali, Renato Cellini, Georges Prêtre / Georges Pretre, Emerson Buckley, Oliviero De Fabritiis, Rome Opera Orchestra, Thomas Schippers, Emil Markow
Genre: Opera
Title: A Passóver Seder Féstival / A Passover Seder Festival
Artist: Richard Tucker
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Richard Tucker Sings Arias from Ten Verdi Operas
Artist: Nello Santi, Richard Tucker, Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Genre: World Music, Opera
Collections
Title: Puccini's Greatest Hit - the Ultimate Nessun Dorma
Genre:
Title: Stars for a Summer Night - All-Star Festival!
Genre: Rock
Title: Sony Classical - Great Performances, 1903-1998
Genre:
Title: Verdi: Greatest Hits
Genre: Opera
Title: O Sole Mio Canzoni Vol. 1
Genre: Opera
Title: The Ultimate Opera Collection (Remastered)
Genre: Opera
Title: Keep Calm and Listen to Classical
Genre:
Title: Most Wanted Classical Songs
Genre:
Title: President's Day Classical Essentials
Genre: Orchestral, Orchestral
Title: Loggione Gran Galà / Loggione Gran Gala
Genre: Opera
Title: Opera Legends
Genre: Opera
Title: #top10tracks - Arias
Genre: Opera
Title: Prima Voce: Legendary Cantors
Genre: World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Fabulous Vienna
Genre: Opera
Title: 50 Shades of Classical Music
Genre:
Title: Classical Meditation & Relaxation
Genre:
Title: Classical New Age for Zen & Meditation
Genre:
Title: I Love Classical Music - #1 Timeless Greats
Genre: Orchestral, Orchestral
Title: The Record of Singing 1899-1952
Genre:
Title: Absolute Masterworks - Opera
Genre:
Title: Opera! Classical Songbook Greats
Genre: Opera
Title: I love Verdi
Genre: Opera
Title: Puccini: Manon Lescaut (Live In New York 1960)
Genre: Opera
Title: The Great Songs Of Christmas, Volume 5
Genre: New Age, Pop, Traditional Pop Music
Title: The Great Songs Of Christmas, Volume 10
Genre: New Age, Traditional Pop Music
Featuring albums
Title: La Boheme
Artist: Coro Del Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma, Orchestra Del Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma, Erich Leinsdorf
Genre: Opera
Title: Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo (Recording New York 05.04.1952)
Artist: The Orchestra, Fritz Stiedry
Genre: Opera
Title: Opera Stoppers
Artist: Luciano Pavarotti, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Marilyn Horne, Lorin Maazel
Genre: Opera
Title: Verdi: Luisa Miller (Metropolitan Opera)
Artist: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Thomas Schippers
Genre: Opera
Title: Ses plus belles scènes d'amour / Ses plus belles scenes d'amour
Artist: Maria Callas
Genre: Opera
Title: Giacomo Puccini: Tosca (New York 1958)
Artist: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos
Genre: Opera
Title: Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Artist: Fritz Stiedry, Orchestra Of The Metropolitan Opera House
Genre: Opera
Title: Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (New York 1957)
Artist: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos
Genre: Opera
Title: Greatest Hits: Bizet
Artist: Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra, The, Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic
Genre: Traditional Pop Music, Opera
Title: Verdi: La forza del destino (1954 - Serafin) - Callas Remastered
Artist: Maria Callas
Genre: Opera
Title: Verdi: Greatest Hits
Artist: The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Opera
Title: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Artist: Erich Leinsdorf, Italiana Opera Orchestra
Genre: Opera
Title: Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Artist: Fausto Cleva, The Metropolitan Opera Association Orchestra
Genre: Opera
Title: Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (Metropolitan Opera)
Artist: Nello Santi
Genre: Classical
Title: Stars for a Summer Night - All-Star Festival!
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz