LC control no. | n 85078657 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Castel, Nico |
Variant(s) | Kalinhoff, Naftali Chaim Castel Castel Kalinhoff, Naftali Chaim |
Associated country | United States |
Located | Venezuela |
Birth date | 1931-08-01 |
Death date | 2015-05-31 |
Place of birth | Lisbon (Portugal) |
Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
Field of activity | Opera Singing--Diction |
Affiliation | Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) |
Profession or occupation | Opera singers Tenors (Singers) Vocal coaches |
Found in | Offenbach, J. The tales of Hoffmann [SR] 1985?, p1972: container (Nico Castel) booklet p. 3 (tenor) A singer's manual of Spanish lyric diction, c1994: CIP t.p. (Nico Castel) data sheet (b. Aug. 1, 1931) The New York times website, June 4, 2015: obituary published June 3, 2015 (Nico Castel; born Naftali Chaim Castel Kalinhoff on Aug. 1, 1931 in Lisbon, Portugal; reared in Venezuela; d. Sunday [May 31, 2015] in Manhattan, N.Y.; operatic tenor; appeared in nearly 800 performances with the Metropolitan Opera from the 1970s onward; made his Met debut on Mar. 30, 1970; had a career as the company's staff diction coach for 3 decades until retiring in 2009) <https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/arts/music/nico-castel-tenor-and-diction-coach-at-the-met-dies-at-83.html> |