Internationally renowned tenor Pavlos Raptis died in Warsaw on Sunday, November 21, at the age of 85. He collaborated with the National Opera from 1973 until the beginning of the 2000s, while from 1988 he was a permanent executive.
She sang in famous operas and operettas (The Pearl Fishermen, Traviata, The Tales of Hoffmann, Bohem, Rigoletto, Eugene Oniegin, Heinzel and Gretel, The Elixir of Love, etc.), while her participation in Corinth “,” Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk “,” The Tsar’s suitor “.
Pavlos Raptis was born in Trilofo, Kastoria, on February 29, 1936. During the Civil War, he emigrated to Albania and Romania, ending up in 1950 in Poland. There he studied at a music high school and later at the Poznan Academy of Music, graduating with honors.
He first appeared in the opera The Pearl Fishermen at the Wroclaw Opera (1961), and for many years was a soloist at the Loch Grand Theater and the Warsaw Grand Theater. Since the 1980s he has collaborated with lyric theaters of the former Yugoslavia, has also appeared in New York, Chicago, Melbourne, Moscow, Paris, etc., and has made numerous recordings for Polish record companies.
With a charismatic voice and technique, special theatricality on stage, clear, noble, full of sparkle sound, he distinguished himself in different types of music: From opera, operetta, oratorio and cantatas to serenades and songs. Until recently, he was active and systematically involved in teaching.
The administration and the staff of the National Opera express, in their announcement, their deep emotion for his death.
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