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Jon Vickers as Gherman Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon

Jon Vickers as Gherman Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon

$ 13.2

Availability: 16 in stock
  • Condition: Photo has curled. See scan.
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Size: 8" x 10"
  • Industry: Music
  • Genre: Classical, Opera & Ballet
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    Jon Vickers as Gherman in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon
    Jonathan Stewart Vickers, CC (October 29, 1926 – July 10, 2015), known professionally as Jon Vickers, was a Canadian tenor. Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he was the sixth in a family of eight children. In 1950, he was awarded a scholarship to study opera at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. In 1957 Vickers joined London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden company. In 1960 he joined the Metropolitan Opera
    Louis Mélançon
    (1901-1974) was the in-house
    photographer
    for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.