Nicolai Gedda; “Ja ljublju vas, Olga“; EUGENE ONEGIN; Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovky

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. ================= Nicolai Gedda--tenor Firenze 1977 ========================== “Born: July 11, 1925 - Stockholm, Sweden Died: January 8, 2017, Tolochenaz, near Lausanne, Switzerland The Swedish singer, Nicolai (Harry Gustav) Gedda (real name: Ustinov)2 [born: Harry Gustaf Nikolaj Gädda3], was one of the most knowledgeable of tenors. Gedda was his mother’s name, which he assumed in his professional life. His father was a Russian, who went to Sweden after the Civil War. He began his professional career as a bank teller in a local bank in Stockholm. One day a wealthy client overheard him speaking about his desire to sing professionally, and offered to pay for his tuition to study with Karl Martin Oehmann - a well known Wagnerian tenor of the late 1920’s. He studied at the Opera School at the Stockholm Conservatory. In April 1952, at the age of 27, Nicolai Gedda had made