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Tugomir Franc (8 February 1932 – 5 January 1983), was a Yugoslavian opera singer (
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on Operaclass.com Franc had a warm, deep voice and clear diction, despite a slight Balkan accent. He was also successful as a concert and oratorio singer. He is buried at (2-15-5) in Vienna.
"Franc, Tugomir"
In '' Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon'', Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2002.
Franc, Tugomi
on Ludwig Maximilian University
Tugomir Franc
Vienna State Opera * {{DEFAULTSORT:Franc, Tugomir 1932 births 1983 deaths Musicians from Zagreb Operatic basses Yugoslav male opera singers
Tugomir Franc (8 February 1932 – 5 January 1983), was a Yugoslavian opera singer (bass
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).
Life
Born inZagreb
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, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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, Franc was trained at the Zagreb Conservatory by Zlatko Sir and Lav Vrbanik and then in Vienna by Elisabeth Radó. From the end of the 1950s he sang frequently at the Vienna State Opera and at the Bayreuth Festival
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, among others under the direction of Herbert von Karajan (as Titurel in '' Parsifal'' in 1961, and in ''Tannhäuser
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'' in 1963). From 1964 to 1965 he also sang at the Salzburg Festival
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. As a guest he was active in Bordeaux, Nancy, Toulouse, Rome, Turin, Frankfurt am Main, Stockholm, Geneva, Belgrade and Zagreb as well as at the Vienna Volksoper.on Operaclass.com Franc had a warm, deep voice and clear diction, despite a slight Balkan accent. He was also successful as a concert and oratorio singer. He is buried at (2-15-5) in Vienna.
References
Further reading
* Andrea Harrandt"Franc, Tugomir"
In '' Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon'', Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2002.
External links
Franc, Tugomi
on Ludwig Maximilian University
Tugomir Franc
Vienna State Opera * {{DEFAULTSORT:Franc, Tugomir 1932 births 1983 deaths Musicians from Zagreb Operatic basses Yugoslav male opera singers