Create account Log in

Robert Merrill

[Edit]

Wikimp3 information about the music of Robert Merrill. On our website we have 47 albums and 43 collections of artist Robert Merrill. You can find useful information and download songs of this artist.

Biography

[Edit]

Robert Merrill was born in New York on June 4, 1917. He mother was a concert singer, Lillian Miller Merrill, who gave him his first voice lessons. His first outside voice teacher was Samuel Margolis. He debuted as a popular singer on the radio, and debuted as an opera singer in Aida in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1944. He won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the air in New York, and made a debut with the Met on December 15, 1945, as Germont in La Traviata. He primarily stayed with the Metropolitan throughout his long career, and was regarded as a vigorous and very steady, if not stellar, singer; although fine in vocal endowment and training, he was not particularly imaginative as an actor or interpreter.

He made his European debut, as Germont, in Venice in 1961, and his London debut in Covent Garden, again as Germont, in 1967. Meanwhile, he continued as a mainstay of the Metropolitan for a very long career. He sang his 500th opera there on March 5, 1973, with no diminution of vocal powers. His very familiarity and reliability made him a popular favorite. He also made many radio, television, and film appearances, and also sang in musicals, including "Fiddler on the Roof." His operatic repertory was the standard Met repertory of leading baritone parts, in operas such as Tosca, Carmen, Otello, Barber of Seville, and Falstaff (as Ford). He made many recordings, including early appearances when he was chosen by Toscanini to sing in "Traviata." For a brief while he was married to fellow Metropolitan star, soprano Roberta Peters. His two autobiographies were "Once More from the Beginning" (1965) and "Between Acts" (1977).

Title: Whiffenpoof Song

Artist: Robert Merrill

Genre: Jazz

Collections

Title: Romanze

Genre:

Title: Light Opera Gems

Genre: Opera

Title: Opera Legends

Genre: Opera

Title: Memories of Broadway

Genre: Pop

Title: I Love Mom

Genre:

Title: The Voice Of America

Genre:

Title: Ultimate Verdi

Genre: Opera

Title: I love Verdi

Genre: Opera

Featuring albums

Title: Aida

Artist: Giuseppe Verdi

Genre:

Title: La Boheme

Artist: Giacomo Puccini

Genre: