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James King

Mawaƙin Amurka (tenor). Ya fara halarta a karon a matsayin baritone a 1961. A cikin 1962 ya fara halartan wasan tenor (San Francisco, wani yanki na Jose). Babban nasara ya zo ga mawaƙa bayan ya fara halarta a Turai a Berlin Deutsche oper (1963, Lohengrin part). Ya yi a Munich, a bikin Salzburg (1963, ɓangaren Achilles a Gluck's Iphigenia en Aulis). Tun 1965, ya akai-akai yi a Bayreuth Festival (sassan Sigmund a Valkyrie, Parsifal, da dai sauransu). Tun 1965 a Metropolitan Opera (na farko a matsayin Florestan a Fidelio), inda ya rera waka har 1990. Sauran ayyuka sun hada da Manrico, Calaf, Othello. A cikin 1983 ya yi da babban nasara a La Scala a cikin Cherubini's Anacreon. A cikin 1985 ya rera waƙa a Covent Garden sashen Bacchus a Ariadne auf Naxos na R. Strauss. Ya rubuta ayyuka da yawa a wasan operas ta mawakan Jamus, ciki har da Wagner, R. Strauss, Hindemith, wanda muka lura da matsayin Albrecht a cikin wasan opera na ƙarshe The Artist Mathis (wanda Kubelik, EMI ya gudanar), Parsifal (wanda Boulez, DG ya gudanar) .

E. Tsodokov