Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American tenor and actor (died 1973)

Lauritz Melchior

Danish opera singer (1890–1973)

Lauritz Melchior was a Danish-American opera singer. He was the preeminent Wagnerian heldentenor of the 1920s through the 1940s and has come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type. Late in his career, Melchior appeared in movie musicals and on radio and television.…