| 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 | 19310801 |
| Death date | 20150531 |
| 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 | 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. 8/1/1931) New York times (online), viewed June 4, 2015 (in obituary published June 3: Nico Castel; b. Naftali Chaim Castel Kalinhoff, Aug. 1, 1931, Lisbon; reared in Venezuela; d. Sunday [May 31, 2015], Manhattan, aged 83; highly regarded operatic tenor, appearing in nearly 800 performances with the Metropolitan Opera from the 1970s onward; made his Met debut on Mar. 30, 1970; a well-traveled polyglot, he also had a parallel career as the company's staff diction coach, a post he held for some three decades before his retirement in 2009) |
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