Martial Singher
Bio:
Born and raised in France, Martial Singher was heading toward a career as a teacher of French literature when he discovered his voice and entered the Paris Conservatoire. Upon graduation he was engaged by the Paris Opera and the Opera Comique, where for eleven years he sang a repertoire of extreme variety. During this period he shared his time between Paris and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where he became part of the Italian and German companies, as well as of the French wing. After the fall of France during the war, he took residence with his family in the United States and was a leading artist with the Metropolitan Opera Company for seventeen seasons. His many roles before leaving the company in 1959 included Pelleas, Amfprtas, aaron Scarpia, Mozart's Figaro, and the four baritone parts in Tales of Hoffman. Meanwhile, his concert career had been made of repeated engagements with practically all of the leading American symphony orchestras and of some five hundred recitals, including at least twenty in New York City. At present Martial Singher is a voice instructor and director of the opera department at Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and in the summer is director of the voice department at the Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Martial Singher had been chosen to sing the world premiere of La Danse des Morts by Arthur Honegger in February of 1940 at Basel, Switzerland. Due to the state of war, however, he could not obtain leave from the French military authorities and was prevented from appearing.
Concerts
| Concert Details | Date |
|---|---|
Christmas FestivalSpeaker and solo baritone, La Danse des Morts |
Dec 15, 1985 |
