Forrest Lamont
Forrest Lamont (born January 26, 1881 in Athelone , † December 17, 1937 in Chicago ) was a Canadian opera singer (tenor) and vocal teacher.
Life
Lamont grew up in Chicopee , Massachusetts, where he took music lessons and sang in church choirs. He continued his education in France, Italy and Germany and made his debut as an opera singer at the Teatro Adriano in Rome in Gaetano Donizetti's Poluito in 1914 . In the same year he made a guest appearance in Moscow, then engagements in Italy, Vienna and Budapest.
In 1916 he became a member of Cleofante Campanini's Chicago Civic Opera Company , of which he was a member until 1930. Here he had the opportunity to participate in world premieres of American operas such as Henry Kimball Hadley's Daughter of Montezuma (1917) and Arthur Nevin's Daughter of the Forrest . He sang in William Franke Harling's Light From St. Agnes and Frank Patterson's The Echo and appeared in New York alongside Amelita Galli-Curci in Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix .
Lamont's repertoire also included Wagner's operas as well as Italian and French operas (including Rodolfo in La Bohème , Radames in Aida and Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor ). One of his greatest successes was his appearance as Gennaro in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's I gioielli della Madonna (1921) on the side of Giacomo Rimini and Rosa Raisa .
In addition to engagements in the USA (including at the Cincinnati Civic Opera ), Lamont undertook international concert tours a. a through the Caribbean and South America. After retiring from the opera stage, he worked as a singing teacher in Chicago.
Web links
- Forrest Lamont at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Library and Archives Canada - The Virtual Gramophone - Forrest Lamont
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lamont, Forrest |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian opera singer (tenor) and vocal teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athelone |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1937 |
| Place of death | Chicago |