Alberto Remedios
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Alberto Remedios (born 27 February 1935) is a British operatic heroic tenor.
Remedios was born in Liverpool and began his working life as a docker, but studied singing with Edwin Francis (who also taught Rita Hunter) and then at the Royal College of Music.
He sang a wide variety of roles with the Sadler's Wells Opera, (later to become the English National Opera), including operas by Verdi (Alfredo in La Traviata), Gounod (Faust), Saint-Saëns (Samson and Delila), Richard Strauss (Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos), and Weber (Max in Der Freischutz).
Excellent as these performances were, he will go down in operatic history for his performances in Wagner, especially as Siegfried in the Glen Byam Shaw production of The Ring, conducted by Reginald Goodall. These performances have been captured on live recordings of the production in 1973, which preserve Remedios's partnerships with Norman Bailey as Wotan and Rita Hunter as Brünnhilde.
Most remarkable of all was the occasion (witnessed by this writer) when Remedios, despite a slight chest infection, and due to the illness of another singer, played the roles of both Siegmund in Die Walküre, the title role in Siegfried, and also Siegfried in Götterdämmerung, within a complete cycle of the Ring during one week.
Remedios's genial nature and interest and support of rising singers have enhanced this reputation. He is a great Liverpool F.C. supporter.
Remedios performed in many leading operatic venues around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Seattle, Frankfurt, San Francisco and Buenos Aires. In 1981 he was awarded the CBE. He has lived for some years (as at 2006) in retirement in Australia.
