Miķelis Fišers

6 May 1915 Nīca – 5 August 1984 Riga

Picture of Miķelis Fišers
Fišers started as baritone before becoming a tenor.

In 1939, Fišers finished the Liepāja conservatory.

1941–48, he worked at the Liepāja opera theater, first in the chorus, from 1945 as a baritone soloist.

Starting in 1948, Fišers was a soloist at the Latvian Opera in Riga. His roles included: Demon, Onegin, Scarpia, and Renato.

In 1955, Fišers began to sing dramatic tenor parts such as Vsevolod (Skazanie o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii/The legend of the invisible city of Kitezh and the maiden Fevronija), Radames, Canio, Cavaradossi, Sergej (Katerina Izmajlova), Ovod (Ovod/The gadfly by Spadavecchia), Aivars (Uz jauno krastu/Towards the new shore by Marġeris Zariņš), Johnson, Rodolfo, Don Carlo, José, Pedro (Tiefland), Antiņš (Zelta zirgs/The golden horse by Žilinskis), Vižuts (Baņuta by Alfrēds Kalniņš), Kangars (Uguns un nakts/Fire and night by Jānis Mediņš) ....
Reference 1: Arkadij Pruzhanskij, Otechestvennye pevtsy 1750–1917, vol. 1, Moscow 1991
Reference 2

Miķelis Fišers sings Turandot: Nessun dorma, in Latvian
In RA format

Miķelis Fišers sings Il trovatore: Di quella pira
In RA format

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