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Paul Franke
Paul Franke is credited on 157 releases across 36 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2021 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
157
Pressings credited
36
Albums
8
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Paul Walter Franke (December 23, 1917, Boston – July 21, 2011, Queens) was an American operatic tenor who specialized in the comprimario repertoire. He had a very long association with the Metropolitan Opera, where he performed nearly 2000 times from 1948 to 1987. He also sang in the Santa Fe Opera house. His discography includes two recordings conducted by Renato Cellini, on RCA: Il trovatore (with Jussi Björling, Zinka Milanov, Fedora Barbieri, and Leonard Warren, 1952) and Pagliacci (with Björling, Victoria de los Ángeles, Warren, and Robert Merrill, 1953). On DVD, he is seen in the Met's 1980 Un ballo in maschera, opposite Katia Ricciarelli, Judith Blegen, Bianca Berini, Luciano Pavarotti, and Louis Quilico.
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Credited work
157 releases · 36 albums · active 1951–2021
- Performance · 164
- Other credits · 1
Studios: Manhattan Center · The Metropolitan Opera House · RCA Victor Studios, New York · Prinzregententheater, München
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Verdi
- Puccini
- Offenbach
- Leoncavallo
- Richard Strauss
- Various
- Gaetano Donizetti
- Giuseppe Verdi
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