Nigel Rogers

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Nigel David Rogers
Born(1935-03-21)21 March 1935
Wellington, Shropshire
Died19 January 2022(2022-01-19) (aged 86)
GenresEarly music, baroque and sacred music

Nigel David Rogers (21 March 1935 – 19 January 2022) was an English multilingual tenor, music conductor, and vocal coach, who sang in over seventy classical music album recordings in German, French, Italian, Latin and English, mostly of

Purcell, and Bach
. Singing critics like Melanie Eskenazi describe him as a vocal virtuoso of the local phrasing and decoration (ornamenti) of those particular musical periods exactly as they were practised back then. He was considered a world authority in the field of European early music, the scores of which he helped promote and rescue as a music genre, since the outset of his early career.

Early life

A native of

Archiv
label released in 1966.

Opera career

Rogers made his operatic debut in Amsterdam, and sang in many renowned international opera houses. He gave numerous singing master classes and workshops at music conservatories worldwide, for early music and opera singers of all nationalities.

Operas with which he was notably associated include L'Orfeo by Monteverdi, in which he took the title role and made many recordings. From 1978 until his retirement he was a professor of classical singing and operatic voice coach at the Royal College of Music in London. In 1979 he founded and thereupon conducted the vocal ensemble Chiaroscuro for the performance of Italian baroque compositions.

In July 1993 he starred at a

Queen of Spain Isabella II of Bourbon's great-great granddaughter, invited Nigel Rogers to the city of Mazatlán. There he was acquainted with different styles of Mexican music, Mariachi, and Mexican Carnival band music. Rogers became a close long-standing friend of Lady Marina of Bourbon, and the Haas Canalizo family, founders and former inhabitants of today's "Haas House Museum" (Casa Museo Haas) in Mazatlán, the family's mansion where Rogers stayed during his visit to Mazatlán before it was turned into a museum by the government of Sinaloa
.

Personal life and death

Rogers lived in

Froberger.[1][2]

He died on 19 January 2022, at the age of 86.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Eskenazi, Melanie. "Nigel Rogers 70th Birthday Concert". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  2. ^ Yeoman, William. "Nigel Rogers: 70th-Birthday Recital". classicalsource.com. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  3. ^ Le ténor Nigel Rogers est mort (in French)
  4. ^ Fallows, David (6 March 2022). "Nigel Rogers obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  • Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians (1997)
  • Excélsior Newspaper, printed, Mexico, cultural section (July 1993)
  • BBC Radio 3, London, Nigel Rogers interviews and broadcasts of his recordings
  • El Noroeste Newspaper, printed, Mexico, Mazatlan city and Sinaloa State (7 May 1994)
  • El Noroeste Newspaper, printed, Mexico, Mazatlan city and Sinaloa State (10 May 1994)
  • Wigmore Hall, Rogers 70th birthday

External links

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