Ticho Parly
Born Frederik Christiansen, he worked as a travel agent so as to fund his voice training in Paris, at Indiana
University, and at Mannes School in New York. Most of the time, he studied as a baritone, and as such made his debut in amateur opera
in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1955. In New Orleans, where he moved in 1957 so as to exercise his travel agent profession, he found a teacher
who made him become a tenor, and his professional debut took place with the New Orleans opera company as Pong in 1958.
From 1959 to 1961, he was a member of the troupe in Aachen, then for one season in Wuppertal, and from 1962 to 1965 in Kassel. Already
during those years, he appeared in San Francisco, Lisbon, Amsterdam or at the Monnaie, and after leaving Kassel, he could go on as a
freelancer: in
Zürich (regularly from 1965), at La Scala (debut 1967 as Herodes), at the Colón in Buenos Aires (1966/67, Florestan,
Tristan), the Vienna Staatsoper (debut 1965, merely three performances total), the Bayreuth Festival (Siegmund 1966, both Siegfrieds
1968), Covent Garden (Young Siegfried 1966, Tristan 1973), Paris Opéra (Tannhäuser 1967 and 1972, Siegmund 1968), the Met
(1967/68, Tristan, Erik, Ägisth), in Copenhagen, Cincinnati, Washington, Seattle, Boston, San Diego, Dresden, Köln, Budapest,
Madrid, at the Berlin Staatsoper and the Salzburg Festival. He sang until 1990, and ultimately taught voice in Seattle.
Reference 1: Kutsch & Riemens, reference 2
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