Charles Hackett
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Charles Hackett (November 4, 1889, Worchester, Massachusetts - January 1, 1942, New York, New York) was an American tenor.
[edit] Life and career
Hackett studied first at the New England Conservatory in Boston with Arthur J. Hubbard, and later with Vincenzo Lombardi in Florence. He made his stage debut in Genoa, as Wilhelm Meister in Mignon, in 1914.
He sang in Italy and South America, before making his debut at the Metropolitan Opera on January 31,1919, as Almaviva, in seven seasons with the Met, he appeared as: Lindoro, Roméo, Alfredo, Rodolfo and Pinkerton. He also sang at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 1923 until 1934.
Hackett made a number of recordings for Edison and Columbia, notably duets with Maria Barrientos and Rosa Ponselle, in which one can appreciate a singer with a fine technique and a certain elegance.
[edit] Sources
- The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia, edited by David Hamilton, (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1987) ISBN 0-671-61732-X
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