Conrad, Richard

Performer

Richard Conrad (born 1935) is an American singer whose voice has at times inhabited both the tenor and baritone ranges. He has sung in opera, cabaret and musicals. He is perhaps best known for his 1963 recorded collaboration with Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Horne, conducted by Richard Bonynge, known as The Age of Bel Canto. Additional singing premieres include the American premiere of Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice (1966), and the world premiere of Niccolò Castiglioni's I tre misteri (1968). As a producer, he sang and directed the American premiere the two-act version of [Gaetano Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, and in 2003 he created the role of Montressor in Daniel Pinkham's 'The Cask of Amontillado'. [source from Wikipedia]

Work

• The Stranger Woman
• Astarto
• Beatrice of Tenda
• The Barber of Seville
• Julius Caesar in Egypt, HWV 17
• Atalanta, HWV 35
• The Shepherd King, K. 208
• The Dumb Girl of Portici, S. 16
• The Abduction from the Seraglio, K. 384
• Don Pasquale