Arkor, André d’
Arkor, André d’
Arkor, André d’, Belgian tenor; b. Tilleur, near Liège, Feb. 23, 1901; d. Brussels, Dec. 19, 1971. He studied with Malherbe and Seguin at the Liège Cons. He made his operatic debut in 1925 as Gérard in Lakmé at the Liège Théâtre Royal; then sang in Ghent and Lyons; in 1930 he joined the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, where he remained as a leading tenor until 1945; from 1945 to 1965 he was director of the Liège Théâtre Royal. He was particularly esteemed as a Mozartean.
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