Edgar Vincent (13 March 1918,

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— 26 June 2008,

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) was an American publicist and

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birth. He began his career appearing in small roles in Hollywood films during the 1940s but his German accent prevented him from moving further with his career. In 1949 he joined a New York publishing firm with his first client being the opera singer Ezio Pinza. He went on to specialize in being a publicist for opera singers, helping shape and forward the careers of major stars like Lily Pons,

Anna Moffo Anna Moffo (June 27, 1932 – March 9, 2006) was an American opera singer, television personality, and actress. One of the leading lyric- coloratura sopranos of her generation, she possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerable range and agil ...

, Eleanor Steber,

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, George London, Leonard Warren, Mirella Freni, Shirley Verrett, Cecilia Bartoli,

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, Dorothy Kirsten, Eileen Farrell,

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and

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. He had a particularly close friendship and relationship with the late Beverly Sills and was also a close friend and adviser to

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in addition to being his publicist. Vincent also worked for

Mikhail Baryshnikov Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov ( rus, Михаил Николаевич Барышников, p=mʲɪxɐˈil bɐ'rɨʂnʲɪkəf; lv, Mihails Barišņikovs; born January 28, 1948) is a Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Latvian-born R ...

and a handful of musicians other than opera singers, including conductors Erich Leinsdorf, Leopold Stokowski and

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; the cellist

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; and the violinist Isaac Stern. He also worked frequently with his colleague, fellow publicist

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