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Vinson Cole (born November 21, 1950) is an American operatic tenor.A native of Kansas City, the tenor studied at the University of Missouri, Kansas City; the Philadelphia Musical Academy; and at the Curtis Institute of Music with Margaret Harshaw. He made his European debut in Angers, France in Handel's Acis and Galatea and followed that with the role of Belmonte in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio with the Welsh National Opera. In 1977, his youthful promise was recognized when he won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, the WGN Competition, and was awarded both Rockefeller Foundation and National Opera Institute grants.
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La Damnation De Faust | Hector Berlioz / The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Hilversum & Groot Omroepkoor, Bernard Haitink - Thomas Quasthoff, Charlotte Margiono, Vinson Cole, Jaco Huijpen | 2011 | Album |
Berlioz Requiem - Edition 100 | Vinson Cole, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa | 2004 | Album |
Symphony 2 'Lobgesang' | Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Juliane Banse, Sibylla Rubens, Vinson Cole, Rundfunkchor Berlin | 1996 | Album |
Missa Solemnis | Ludwig van Beethoven, Iulia Várady, Iris Vermillion, Vinson Cole, René Pape, Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Georg Solti | 1995 | Album |
Mysteries Beyond - Songs And Chants In Praise Of Mary | Dennis Keene / Vinson Cole / Voices Of Ascension | 1994 | Album |
Oedipus Rex | Igor Stravinsky ‧ Vinson Cole ‧ Simon Estes ‧ Hans Sotin ‧ Nicolai Gedda ‧ Patrice Chéreau, Radiokören ‧ Eric Ericsons Kammarkör ‧ Orphei Drängar, Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester, Esa-Pekka Salonen | 1992 | Album |
Symphony No. 5 / Te Deum | Anton Bruckner, Karita Mattila • Susanne Mentzer • Vinson Cole • Robert Holl, Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wiener Philharmoniker, Bernard Haitink | 1989 | Album |
Requiem | Giuseppe Verdi, Carlo Maria Giulini, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sharon Sweet, Florence Quivar, Vinson Cole, Simon Estes, Ernst Senff Chor Berlin | 1989 | Album |
Requiem | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Anna Tomowa-Sintow • Helga Müller-Molinari • Vinson Cole • Paata Burchuladze, Wiener Singverein, Wiener Philharmoniker • Herbert von Karajan | 1987 | Album |
Missa Solemnis | Ludwig van Beethoven, Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Lella Cuberli, Trudeliese Schmidt, Vinson Cole, José van Dam | 1986 | Album |
Presenting four outstanding american tenors of the 1980's | Rockwell Blake, Vinson Cole, Jerry Hadley, Gioacchino Rossini, Otto Nicolai, Richard Strauss, Giacomo Puccini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georges Bizet, Barry McCauley | 1980 | Album |
Mass In D | John Knowles Paine | 1978 | Album |