Neil Shicoff
Neil Shicoff was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States on June 2nd, 1949 and is the American Opera Singer. At the age of 74, Neil Shicoff biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Shicoff continued singing at the Met until 1990 when he appeared in the title role of Faust (opera). However, in 1991 he left America, fleeing the stresses and headlines engendered by his ongoing divorce proceeding and custody battle concerning his daughter, into a self-described European exile. He lived for three years in Berlin, then Zürich, performing throughout Europe (with a handful of appearances in Buenos Aires), and he slowly rebuilt his reputation for reliability. He appeared at Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Paris Opera, Covent Garden, Berlin's Deutsche Oper, Bavarian State Opera, Zurich Opera House and numerous other opera houses and concert halls throughout Europe.
By 1997, Shicoff and Haddon finally reached a divorce settlement. Their final decree left Shicoff free to marry soprano Dawn Kotoski, with whom he had lived since 1990, and to renew his relationship with his daughter, Aliza. Shicoff also returned to the Met, as Lensky in Eugene Onegin. His last performance at the Met was in 2006 when he appeared as Rodolfo in Luisa Miller. By then he had appeared with company over 200 times in 20 roles.
Shicoff's most famous roles (besides Werther), include the title roles in The Tales of Hoffmann and Peter Grimes and Lensky in Eugene Onegin and Eleazar in La Juive, as well as for a number of the Romantic French and Italian lyric and spinto tenor roles. In addition to his opera performances, he has also sung concerts with the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein, the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado, the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Edo de Waart, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa, among others, and at many festivals.
- 2003: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
- 2006: Gold Medal for Services to the City of Vienna
- Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
- April 2011: Golden Mask as "Best Male Opera Performer" for his performance as Éléazar in La Juive at the Mikhailovsky Theatre