Meader, George
Meader, George
Meader, George, American tenor; b. Minneapolis, July 6, 1888; d. Los Angeles, Dec. 19, 1963. He studied law at the Univ. of Minnesota (graduated, 1908) and concurrently took vocal lessons with Anna Schoen-René; then studied with Pauline Viardot-García in Paris. He made his operatic debut as the Steersman in Der fliegende Holländer in Leipzig (1911), then was a member of the Stuttgart Opera until 1919. Returning to America in 1919, he gave recitals before making his operatic debut with the Metropolitan Opera in N.Y. as Victorin in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt (Nov. 19, 1921). He left the Metropolitan in 1931 and sang in operetta, being particularly successful in Jerome Kern’s Cat and the Fiddle.
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