William Pell

William Pell (born August 16, 1947 in Denver , Colorado , † July 26, 2003 in Nashville , Tennessee ) was an American opera singer ( tenor , previously baritone ).

Life

After training at the Conservatory of Baltimore and at the Manhattan School of Music New York Pell began a career as a baritone and sang the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro , as well as Germont in Verdi's La traviata .

From 1975 he began with tenor roles, such as Rodolfo in La Bohème . Soon he also started in the Wagner subject. Since 1982 he has been engaged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (artistic director: Götz Friedrich ; general music director: Jesús López Cobos ). Here he also sang the world premiere of the opera Oedipus by Wolfgang Rihm (1987) and at the Schwetzingen Festival in Rudolf Kelterborn's Ophelia. In Frankfurt a. M. he took part in the world premiere of the opera Stephen Climax by Hans Zender (1986). At the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto in 1987 he had great success in the title role of Parsifal , where he also sang Laça in Leoš Janáček's Jenůfa in 1988 . Then he appeared as Bacchus in Ariadne on Naxos and as Alwa in Lulu . In 1988 he was cast in Berlin as Siegfried in the Ring of the Nibelung and as Kudryash in Katja Kabanowa . At the Bayreuth Festival he sang Parsifal for three seasons from 1989, and in 1989 also Walther von der Vogelweide in Tannhäuser .

personal data
SURNAME	Pell, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American opera singer (tenor, previously baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH	August 16, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Denver , Colorado
DATE OF DEATH	July 26, 2003
Place of death	Nashville , Tennessee