Frederick Donaldson Suggest updates
Canadian tenor.
Frederick Donaldson studied at the Royal Conservatory, Toronto and the University of Toronto Opera School.
He sang for three years with the Canadian Opera Company and appeared with them at Expo 1967 in Montreal. His English debut in 1969 was al the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as lopas in Les Troyens (in which fellow-Canadian Jon Vickers was Aeneas) He also appeared with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Glyndebourne Touring Company, and at the Wexford Festival.
He sang with the Scottish group of Opera for All singing leading roles in Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor and Rodolfo in La bohème. His roles with full Scottish Opera company included a Soldier in The Coronation of Poppea, a Sailor and Melot in Tristan und lsolde. Camille in The Merry Widow, and Tamino in lhe Magic Flute.
Taken from Scottish Opera programme spring 1974
Roles in Scotland
- Arturo Lord Arthur Bucklaw
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Lucia di Lammermoor 1972
Lucia di Lammermoor 1973
Lucia di Lammermoor 1974
Lucia di Lammermoor 1975
- Edgardo Edgar, the Master of Ravenswood
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Lucia di Lammermoor 1972
Lucia di Lammermoor 1973
- Camille de Rosillon
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Lustige Witwe 1973
- Second Soldier of Nero's bodyguard
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Incoronazione di Poppea 1973
- Melot a Cornish courtier
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Tristan und Isolde 1973
- Sailor
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Tristan und Isolde 1973
- Major- domo to the Marschallin
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Rosenkavalier 1974
- First Prisoner
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Fidelio 1974
- Tamino a Prince
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Zauberflöte 1974
Zauberflöte 1974
- First Priest
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Zauberflöte 1974
Zauberflöte 1974
- First Armed Man
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Zauberflöte 1974
Zauberflöte 1974
- Lavitsky a Jesuit
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Boris Godunov 1974
- Boyar in attendance
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Boris Godunov 1974