Robert Weede
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 Weede at right with Jan Peerce and Jean Tennyson on the radio program "Great Moments in Music", 1942 | |
| Born | February 22, 1903 |
| Died | July 9, 1972 (aged 69) Walnut Creek, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Singer |
Robert Weede /ˈwiːdi/ (February 22, 1903 – July 9, 1972) was an American operatic baritone.
Life and career
Robert Wiedefeld was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and had two sisters, Elizabeth and
At the New York City Opera, Weede also sang in .
In 1956, he scored a great success on
Weede's operatic recordings include excerpts from Bizet's Carmen, for Columbia in 1946, with Risë Stevens conducted by Georges Sébastian; and an album of arias by Verdi for Capitol Records in 1953, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. In 2006, Lebendige Vergangenheit published a Compact Disc of excerpts from his Bizet and Verdi recordings, as well as various live performances from 1948 through 1954.
Weede often gave assistance to younger singers, especially John Alexander, Dominic Cossa, Mario Lanza, Jan Peerce, Seymour Schwartzman and Norman Treigle.[2] He died in Walnut Creek, California, in 1972.
Videography
- Spielman: The Stingiest Man In Town (Munsel, Rathbone; Camarata, Petrie, 1956) [live] VAI
References
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ Strange Child of Chaos: Norman Treigle (page 217), by Brian Morgan, iUniverse, 2006.
- The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia, edited by David Hamilton, Simon and Schuster, 1987. ISBN 0-671-61732-X
External links
- Robert Weede at the Internet Broadway Database
- Robert Weede in an excerpt from The Most Happy Fella.
- Robert Weede at Find a Grave
- Weede sings "The Caissons Go Rolling Along" in a World War II propaganda film
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