Widely known and respected Baltic opera tenor with uniquely deep, "heroic" qualities of his voice, was born in Riga, Latvia in 1921 into family of a chocolate merchant. During a Second World War the entire family was sent by the Soviets to Siberia. Mr. Feigelson had returned back to Riga in 1947 and had studied at the Latvian State Conservatory from 1949 to 1951. Leading tenor at the Riga State Opera from 1952, since 1963 he did mostly concert work. In 1979, the singer and his family (wife Dina, violinist and son Rafael, percussionist) had emigrated to Israel. Mr. Feigelson had continued to appear regularly till his last days in recitals featuring both classical and Jewish music.
Major parts/operas performed: Don Jose (Carmen), Gerrald (Lakme), Lohengrin (Lohengrin), Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann), Count (Rigoletto), Alfred (La Traviata), Count Di Lerm (Don Carlos), and others. Requiems of Mozart, Verdi and Liszt, the Stabat Mater of Pergolesi and Dvorak, Haendel's Messiah, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and much more. Appeared with 36 orchestras and 52 conductors, including Gennady Rozhdestvenski, Neeme Jarvi, Kirill Kondrashin, Gunther Herbig, Boris Khaikin, and others.
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