Шандор Коня (Sándor Konya) |
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Шандор Коня (Sándor Konya) |

Sándor Kónya

Date of birth
23.09.1923
Date of death
22.05.2002
Profession
singer
Voice type
tenor
Country
Hungary

Hungarian singer (tenor). Debut 1951 (Bielefeld, part of Turiddu in Rural Honor). From 1958 he sang at the Bayreuth Festival (parts of Lohengrin, Walterav “Tannhäuser”). In 1960-65 he performed in San Francisco, in 1961-74 at the Metropolitan Opera (debut as Lohengrin), where he performed more than 20 parts (Calaf, Radames, Cavaradossi, Pinkerton, etc.). He also performed at La Scala, the Vienna Opera, the Grand Opera. Since 1963 in Covent Garden.

E. Tsodokov

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