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Edgar Evans
Edgar Evans was a Welsh opera singer. His most famous role was Hermann in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Evans was born in Cwrtnewydd, Cardiganshire, Wales. In all, he sang some 45 roles—most of them major ones—at Covent Garden from 1946, when, as one of its three principal tenors, he became a founder member of the Covent Garden Opera Company to his retirement in 1975. In that time, he sang more roles and more performances at the Opera House than any other artist. Those roles included Steva in the first British stage performance of Jenůfa, Zinovy in the British premiere of Katerina Ismailova, The Interpreter and A Celestial Messenger in the premiere of Vaughan Williams' The Pilgrim's Progress, Andres in the first Covent Garden Wozzeck and Captain Davidson in Richard Rodney Bennett's Victory. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Evans_(tenor)) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
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Tristan and Isolde, Act I: Vorspiel
Richard Wagner, Ludwig Suthaus, Kirsten Flagstad, Blanche Thebom, Josef Greindl, Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau, Rudolf Schock, Edgar Evans, Rhydderch Davies, and Covent Garden Chorus
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Tristan and Isolde, Act III: "Mild und leise wie er lächelt"
Richard Wagner, Ludwig Suthaus, Kirsten Flagstad, Blanche Thebom, Josef Greindl, Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau, Rudolf Schock, Edgar Evans, Rhydderch Davies, and Covent Garden Chorus
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Tristan und Isolde: Act II Scene 2: O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe (Tristan, Isolde)
Rhoderick Davies, Edgar Evans, Nina Stemme, Kirsten Flagstad, Josef Greindl, Rudolf Schock, Ludwig Suthaus, Blanche Thebom, and Richard Wagner
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Tristan and Isolde, Act I: "Westwärts schweift der blick"
Richard Wagner, Ludwig Suthaus, Kirsten Flagstad, Blanche Thebom, Josef Greindl, Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau, Rudolf Schock, Edgar Evans, Rhydderch Davies, and Covent Garden Chorus
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Tristan and Isolde, Act I: "Tristan! Isolde!"
Richard Wagner, Ludwig Suthaus, Kirsten Flagstad, Blanche Thebom, Josef Greindl, Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau, Rudolf Schock, Edgar Evans, Rhydderch Davies, and Covent Garden Chorus
Albums
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
2018