Forrest Lamont
I would like to thank Vladimir Efimenko for the recording.
Born in Canada, Lamont grew up in Chicopee (Massachusetts), where he sang in a church choir already as
a child. After vocal studies in France, Germany and Italy, he made his debut in Rome in May 1914. The same year, he also
sang in Moscow, Budapest and Vienna. From 1917 to 1930, he was at the Chicago Civic Opera; in his later years, even after
retiring from the Chicago opera, he sang regularly at the summer festival at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Reference 1: Kutsch & Riemens, reference
2, reference 3
Poliuto – Roma, Adriano, 23 May 1914 Il trovatore – Roma, Adriano, 5? June 1914 Pagliacci Cavalleria rusticana Lucia di Lammermoor – Philadelphia, Opera, 18 December 1916 La bohème – Chicago, Auditorium, 8 December 1917 Azora (composer Henry Hadley) – Chicago, Auditorium, 26 December 1917 A daughter of the forest (composer Arthur F. Nevin) – Chicago, Auditorium, 5 January 1918 Faust – 1918 Madama Butterfly – Chicago, Auditorium, 19 November 1918 Thais – Chicago, Auditorium, 23 November 1918 Isabeau – Chicago, Auditorium, 23 November 1918 Linda di Chamounix – Chicago, Auditorium, 28 November 1918 I gioielli della Madonna – Chicago, Auditorium, 18 November 1920 Parsifal – Chicago, Auditorium, 19 November 1922 Die Walküre – Chicago, Auditorium, 3 December 1922 Boris Godunov – Chicago, Auditorium, 8 November 1923 Siegfried – Chicago, Auditorium, 15 December 1923 Snowbird (composer Theodore Stearn) – Chicago, Auditorium, 1923 Rigoletto – Ravinia Park, 26 June 1924 Lohengrin (act 2 & 3) – Ravinia, 20 August 1924 Aida – Chicago Tannhäuser – Chicago Castel Agrazant (composer Ralph Lyford) – 1926 L'amore dei tre re – Cincinnati, Zoo, 28 June 1926 The music robber (composer Isaac van Grove) – Forest Park, Municipal Theatre, 4 July 1926 Tiefland – Chicago, Auditorium, late 1926 Die Fledermaus – Chicago, Auditorium, late 1927 La Gioconda – Cincinnati, Zoo, 17 June 1928 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Cincinnati, Zoo Andrea Chénier – Cincinnati, Zoo, 16 June 1929 Iris – Cincinnati, Zoo, 27 July 1930 Prodaná nevěsta (Jeník) – Cincinnati, Zoo, 15 June 1931 Fidelio – Cincinnati, Zoo, July 1931 Un ballo in maschera – Cincinnati, Zoo, July 1931 Norma Mefistofele A light from St. Agnes The Echo Tosca
Reference: The Record Collector, Volume 48, No. 3, September 2003. |
