1894-1960 IT
Conductor of Classical
Armand Tokatyan (June 16, 1894 – June 12, 1960) was an operatic tenor. An Armenian born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, he travelled to Egypt with his parents where he sang in cafés to favorable response. He was then sent to Paris to study tailoring, but instead sang in Left Bank cafés. In 1914, he returned to Egypt and earned his living by again singing in the cafés. He took up operetta, soon becoming a matinee idol, then in 1919 went to Milan to pursue an opera career. His operatic debut was in 1921 at the Teatro Dal Verme in Puccini's Manon Lescaut. With the help of Italian conductor Giuseppe Bamboschek, he joined the touring Scotti Opera Company in the United States, and was soon noticed by the Metropolitan Opera where he debuted in 1923. For many years he performed there and at many other opera
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Lakme (Gesamtaufnahme) | Léo Delibes, Lily Pons, Irra Petina, Annamary Dickey, Lucielle Browning, Helen Olheim, Armand Tokatyan, Ezio Pinza, George Cehanovsky, Nicholas Massue, Ludovico Oliviero, Lamberto Belleri, Wilfred Engelman, Wilfrid Pelletier | Album | |
Armand Tokatyan - Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana | Armand Tokatyan - Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana | Compil. |