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EUGENE CONLEY AUTOGRAPH/PHOTO LIEUTENANT COMMANDER BRITISH NAVY A.R.DAVIES COLLE:
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EUGENE CONLEY AUTOGRAPH/PHOTO LIEUTENANT COMMANDER BRITISH NAVY A.R.DAVIES COLLECTIONEugene Conley was a celebrated American operatic tenor.Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Conley studied under Ettore Verna, and made his official debut as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, at the Brooklyn Academy of Musicin 1940. In 1945, he first appeared with the New York City Opera, as Rodolfo in La bohème, and went on to appear with that company until 1950. He also sang with the Opéra-Comiquein Paris, the Teatro alla Scalain Milan (I puritani, 1949; and Les vêpres siciliennesopposite Maria Callas, 1951), and Covent Gardenin London.
The tenor made his Metropolitan Operadebut in 1950, in the title role of Faust, and appeared with the Met many times until 1956.
On television, he appeared on \"The Voice of Firestone\" (1950–53) and \"Cavalcade of Stars\" (1951-52).
Conley was artist-in-residence at the University of North Texas College of Musicfrom 1960 until his retirement in 1978. From 1960 to 1967, he directed its Opera Workshop. In his retirement year, he presented a joint recital at Alice Tully Hall,Lincoln Center, with soprano Maria Powell.[1]Among his students was Henry Price (tenor). He died in Denton, Texas, at the age of seventy-three.
Conley\'s discography includes complete recordings of Faust(with Eleanor Steberand Cesare Siepi, for Columbia, 1951), the first recording of The Rake\'s Progress(conducted by the composer,Igor Stravinsky, for Columbia, 1953), and Beethoven\'s Missa Solemnis(conducted by Arturo Toscanini, for RCA, 1953). In 1999, VAI published, on Compact Discs, a 1952 performance of Rigolettofrom the New Orleans OperaAssociation, with Leonard Warren,Hilde Gueden, Conley, and the young Norman Treigleas Count Monterone, conducted by Walter Herbert. A \"pirated\" recording of the Verdi Requiemexists, with Herva Nelliand Conley, conducted by Guido Cantelli(1954).
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