Leonard Labatt (4 December 1838 – 7 March 1897) was a Swedish dramatic tenor. Labatt was born in a Jewish family in Stockholm and studied under Julius Günther at the

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and

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at the Conservatoire de Paris. He made his début in 1866 at the

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, in

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's '' Die Zauberflöte''. During the season of 1868 he was engaged at the Semperoper in Dresden, and in 1869 he joined the

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in Vienna, with which he remained until 1883. Between 1884 and 1888 he appeared on several stages in the Netherlands and Germany (Rotterdam, Bremen, etc.). In 1888-1889 he went on tour of the United States and Canada with Alexander Strakosch, returning to his native country afterwards. He died, aged 58, in Christiania, Norway. Labatt's repertoire included:

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in Meyerbeer's '' L'Africaine'', the title role in Gounod's Faust, Eleazar in Halévy's ''

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'', and the title roles in

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's '' Tannhäuser'' and '' Rienzi''.

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Leonhard Labatt
at the Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon (Austrian Music Dictionary) Royal College of Music, Stockholm alumni Swedish Jews Swedish operatic tenors 1838 births 1897 deaths Conservatoire de Paris alumni 19th-century Swedish male opera singers {{Sweden-opera-singer-stub