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James King (tenor)
James King (born May 22, 1925 in Dodge City, Kansas) is an American tenor.
He studied music at Louisiana State University and earned a master's degree in 1952 from Kansas City University . He started singing as a baritone, and noticed in 1955 that his range was more that of a tenor. He retrained himself as a tenor and won the American Opera Auditions in Cincinnati in 1961. He made his debut as Don Jose in Bizet's Carmen with the San Francisco Opera. He sang the French and Italian repertoire with the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1962 to 1965.
He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1966. He has sung at all the major opera houses in Europe and America and recorded extensively. He is currently teaching at Indiana University.
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