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Jonathan Stewart Vickers, (October 29, 1926 – July 10, 2015), known professionally as Jon Vickers, was a Canadian heldentenor. Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he was the sixth in a family of eight children. In 1950, he was awarded a scholarship to study opera at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. In 1957 Vickers joined London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden company. In 1960 he joined the Metropolitan Opera. He became world famous for a wide range of German, French and Italian roles. Vickers' huge, powerful voice and solid technique met the demands of many French, German and Italian roles. He was also highly regarded for his powerful stage presence and thoughtful characterizations. In 1968 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. Vickers received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, in 1998.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ggpaa.ca/award-recipients/1998/vickers-jon.aspx )〕 ==Career== Vickers studied with George Lambert at The Royal Conservatory of Music〔(Jon Vickers ) (in German) Bayreuth Festival. Retrieved July 14, 2015〕 and sang professionally in Canada from the early- to mid-1950s. His international career began with his 1957 Covent Garden Riccardo in Verdi's ''Un ballo in maschera''. He continued to appear there into the 1980s, putting his personal stamp on the roles of Énée in Berlioz's ''Les Troyens'', Radamès in Verdi's ''Aida'' and the title role in his ''Don Carlos'', Handel's ''Samson'', Florestan in Beethoven's ''Fidelio'', Tristan in Wagner's ''Tristan und Isolde'', Canio in Leoncavallo's ''Pagliacci'', and the title role in Britten's ''Peter Grimes''. Some critics praised Vickers' Tristan as the best since Lauritz Melchior's.〔''Classical Music: The Listener's Companion'' (2002), ed. Alexander J. Morin, pp. 1038〕 He debuted at the Bayreuth Festival in 1958 as Siegmund in ''Die Walküre'' and sang ''Parsifal'' there in 1964.〔 Later negotiations with Wieland Wagner concerning appearances as Siegfried in ''Götterdämmerung'' ceased on Wieland's death in 1966. His debut role at the Metropolitan Opera in 1960 was Canio in ''Pagliacci''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Remembering Jon Vickers 1926–2015 )〕 He appeared at the Met for 22 seasons in 280 performances of 17 roles, including Florestan in ''Fidelio'', Siegmund in Wagner's ''Die Walküre'', Don Jose in Bizet's ''Carmen'', Radamès in ''Aida'', Erik in Wagner's ''Der fliegende Holländer'', Herman in Tchaikovsky's ''Queen of Spades'', Samson in both Handel's opera and Saint-Saëns' ''Samson et Dalila'', the title role of Verdi's ''Otello'', Don Alvaro in Verdi's ''La forza del destino'', ''Peter Grimes'', ''Tristan und Isolde'', Laca in Janáček's ''Jenůfa'', Vasek in Smetana's ''The Bartered Bride'', and the title role in Wagner's ''Parsifal'', giving his farewell in 1987.〔 Among Vickers' more notable recordings were ''Les Troyens'', singing the part of Énée (Aeneas), with Sir Colin Davis in 1978,〔''Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life'' (1999) by Jeannie Williams and Birgit Nilsson〕 and a legendary and controversial 1958 recording of Handel's ''Messiah'' with Sir Thomas Beecham.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Classical Net )〕 Although scheduled to sing Tannhäuser at Covent Garden in the late 1970s, Vickers dropped out, claiming he could not empathize with the character, and that the opera itself was blasphemous in nature.〔 He sang Nerone in Monteverdi's ''L'incoronazione di Poppea'' at the Paris Opéra, and Alvaro in ''La forza del destino'' at the Met (1975). His roles also included Don Carlos, Andrea Chenier, Herod in ''Salome'', Giasone in ''Medea'' (with Maria Callas in the title role), Pollione in ''Norma''〔 and rarely heard parts such as Cellini in Berlioz's ''Benvenuto Cellini'', Ratan-Sen in Roussel's ''Padmavati'' and Sergei in Shostakovitch's ''Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District''.〔 Many critics praised his interpretation of Verdi's ''Otello'',〔(''Chicago Classical Review'' (August 2009) )〕 which he recorded twice: in 1960 with Tullio Serafin and 1973 with Herbert von Karajan. Vickers also was a long time collaborator with American pianist Richard Woitach. Vickers further sang at the 'home' of Italian opera, Milan's La Scala, as well as in the major opera houses of Chicago, San Francisco, Vienna, and at the Salzburg Festival. He retired in 1988. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jon Vickers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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