Berberian, Ara

Berberian, Ara
▪ 2006

      American opera singer (b. May 14, 1930, Detroit, Mich.—d. Feb. 21, 2005, Boynton Beach, Fla.), performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for more than 20 years after having made his debut there in 1979 as Zacharie in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le Prophète. His warm bass distinguished more than 100 roles, ranging from his operatic debut at age 28 with the Turnau Opera in Woodstock, N.Y., as Don Magnifico in Rossini's La cenerentola to such Met roles as Don Basilio in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Pimen in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and Osmin in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio.

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