John Braham
John Braham , actually Abraham Braham (born March 20, 1774 in London ; died February 17, 1856 there ) was an English opera singer ( tenor ).
Life
Braham, who was an orphan at an early age, received his education from his uncle, the tenor Michael Leoni . In 1787, in honor of his teacher, he sang for the first time in the Covent Garden Opera . After further training by the castrato Venanzio Rauzzini in Bath, he first worked as a piano teacher. From 1794 he worked again as a singer and was engaged by Stephen Storace at the Drury Lane Theater in 1796 . There he made his debut in the opera Mahmoud . After he was also successful with Italian operas in London, he went to Italy in 1798 with the soprano Nancy Storace . There he performed in Florence, Milan, Genoa, Livorno, Venice and Trieste. In 1799 both took part in the world premiere of the opera Il Ritratto by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli at La Scala in Milan . In 1800 he went to Hamburg and returned to England in 1801.
In 1801 he made his debut at Covent Garden Opera in The Chains of the Heart by Joseph Mazzinghi and William Reeve , and then sang at the Lyceum Theater and Her Majesty's Theater .
literature
- KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-907820-70-3 , first volume A – L, column 350 f.
- JM Levien, The Singing of John Braham . London 1944
- David Conway, John Braham - from meshorrer to tenor . In: Jewish Historical Studies , vol 47 (Jewish Historical Society of England). London 2007, ISBN 978-0-902528-41-3
Web links
- John Braham at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- John Braham in the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition
- John Braham, Opera Singer 1774-1856
- John Braham at the National Portrait Gallery
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SURNAME | Braham, John |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Braham, Abraham (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English opera singer (tenor) |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1774 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1856 |
Place of death | London |