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	JVickers.41093
		Vickers' own road to the top, a story he finds boring because it has been repeated so often, is one of vigilant determination, even in the face of an early period of severe self-examination, during which he considered another occupation after seven years of active concertizing.
		Vickers is alluding to his near-experience with Wagner's antihero, one of a handful of scandals over the course of his controversial career.
		Vickers relates a recent conversation with Martina Arroyo, who had just returned from lecturing at a fl college, where she was shocked to find students who had not heard of Marian Anderson.
	www.metoperafamily.org /operanews/_archive/41093/JVickers.41093.html (2637 words)

	Amazon.de: Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life: English Books: Birgit Nilsson,Jeannie Williams,Jonathan Vickers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Although Vickers has not collaborated with Williams for the writing of this book, which may account for the presence of a few minor points where the author appears to be not too sure of, it is evident that a lot of meticulous research has been undertaken for the writing of the work.
		Vickers' last "Otellos" in South Africa, sums it up succinctly when she remarks that Vickers was guilty of "incredible intolerance under a heart of pure gold." Mr.
		Vickers' harsh treatment of opera house directors, impressarios, and agents on basis of their unethical behavior; but it is impossible to excuse the cruel treatment of his colleagues throughout his life.
	www.amazon.de /Jon-Vickers-Heros-Birgit-Nilsson/dp/1555534082 (1913 words)

	Jon Vickers - Moviefone
		Karl Bohm and Jon Vickers: In Concert with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
		Jon Vickers is one of the greatest heroic tenors of this (or any) age.
		Sir John Stuart Vickers is Drummond Professor of Political Economy at the University of...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/jon-vickers/73455/main (130 words)

	Amazon.fr : Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life: Livres en anglais: Birgit Nilsson,Jeannie Williams,Jonathan Vickers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Although Jeannie Williams was not able to get cooperation from Jon Vickers for her biography of the tenor, he should hardly be displeased with the result.
		Vickers has always been devoted to his family, insisting on privacy and sacrificing engagements when his wife became ill and later died from cancer.
		Between performances, Vickers returned to his farm, becoming so absorbed with outdoor work that in one concert program listing he mentioned his "second career as a cattle farmer." Williams gives his subject, as well as Vickers's colleagues, a welcome respect and objectivity--qualities that are rarely found in the insular world of opera.
	www.amazon.fr /Jon-Vickers-Heros-Birgit-Nilsson/dp/1555534082 (626 words)

	Jon Vickers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1950, he was awarded a scholarship to study opera at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music.
		Vickers continued to sing at the Met for 20 subsequent seasons in more than 225 performances of 16 roles, including Don Jose, Herman in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, the Samsons of both Handel and Saint-Saëns, Don Alvaro and Tristan.
		Vickers also had an international career that took him to Milan's La Scala as well as the major opera houses of Chicago, San Francisco and Salzburg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jon_Vickers (417 words)

	UPNE - Jon Vickers: Jeannie Williams
		In this first biography of Vickers, Jeannie Williams provides a captivating and revealing portrait of a very private, deeply religious man and complex artist who baffled and often enraged his friends and colleagues.
		In addition, she details Vickers' controversial withdrawal from the Tannhuser opera, his on-going friction with BBC-TV, his conflicted relationship with his native Canada, and his choices in repertory.
		"Jon Vickers was a singing actor of overwhelming impact, his performances driven by a unique fusion of sensitivity, intelligence, brute force, and stubborn individuality.
	www.upne.com /1-55553-408-2.html (285 words)

	Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life [Book Review] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vickers was born in 1926 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, the sixth in a family of eight children.
		Vickers impressed the faculty by his concentration, one teacher later recalling that he was like a “piece of blotting paper,” soaking up everything in its path.
		Even some of Vickers’ supporters were skeptical, one suggesting that the most charitable interpretation was that, upon studying the role, the tenor must have been unable to connect with it in the way necessary for his best performances.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0012/reviews/linton.html (2580 words)

	Jon Vickers - Profile of the Great Tenor / ML Hart's Words & Music
		In her biography of Jon Vickers, Jeannie Williams discusses the idea that the tenor played up the conflicted sexual desires of the characters he portrayed.
		Jon Vickers recalls his first meeting with the great conductor, (literally) bumping into him on the way in to the recording studio.
		Vickers understood the nature of evil and the essence of Britten's ambivalence; his robust tenorial voice was more convincing than the restrained tones of the reedy Pears.
	www.mlhart.com /WordsMusic/bio_Vickers.htm (3305 words)

	Jon Vickers (Grandi Tenori.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jon Vickers (still active on stage as the narrator in performances of Richard Strauss' setting of Enoch Arden, and a strikingly handsome figure in his 70's) was an anomaly as an operatic tenor.
		Onstage, Vickers was a singular and impressive presence.
		Always leading with the intellect and often brutally honest, Vickers has always been extremely outspoken and critical of the "hype" aspects of the opera world, hurling pointed criticism at the exaggerations spawned by publicity machines.
	www.grandi-tenori.com /tenors/vickers.php (674 words)

	About Jon Vickers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Born in Canada, Jon Vickers appeared at Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, and other major opera houses.
		Vickers changed some words and even some notes, and his approach to the role was diffeent from that of its originator Peter Pears.
		Throughout the book, we are told that Vickers was very religious, and some references are made to his "philosophy," but there is no clear exposition of what his "philosophy" is. The book generally depicts him as difficult, somewhat anit-social, and with strong feelings against homosexuals and homosexuality.
	www.johnrpierce.com /vickers.html (271 words)

	Amazon.ca: Jon Vickers: A hero's life: Books: Jeannie Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vickers' deep Christian beliefs and convictions are treated respectfully and recognized as an integral part of what made him the artist that he was.
		The paradox comes as we read of Mr Vickers nasty temperament that hides behind a cloak of being so "religious" while showing numerous instances of public rudeness to colleagues as well as to his public by signing contracts he had no intentions of fulfilling (such as his Tannhauser).
		Vickers had a great career, but like so many singers, including Callas, Bjoerling, di Stefano, Corelli, Christoff right down to Rita Hunter, once the personality disorder gets in the way of the talent you may as well not bother.
	www.amazon.ca /Jon-Vickers-heros-Jeannie-Williams/dp/1555534082 (2301 words)

	LEGENDARY TENOR JON VICKERS TO GIVE DRAMATIC READING AT MANNES COLLEGE OF MUSIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vickers himself has stated that Enée in Berlioz’s Les Troyens was his finest achievement, but it the title role in Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes which is most remembered by those who were fortunate to have seen it.
		Jon Vickers was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan on October 26, 1926.
		Jon Vicker’s signature role, Peter Grimes, was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1967, and not since Chaliapin and Callas had any artist brought to the stage such riveting emotional and intellectual intensity.
	www.newschool.edu /pressroom/pressreleases/2000/090800_vickers.html (410 words)

	Jon Vickers on his 75th birthday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jon Vickers was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (Canada).
		Vickers, with his characteristic decisiveness, quit his job and went to Toronto, where he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music for three years.
		In 1951, a local performance of Bruckner's "Te Deum", in which Vickers sang the tenor solo, was tape-recorded and found its way into the hands of the conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
	www.unitel.de /uhilites/151001.htm (732 words)

	Jon Vickers Movies - BestPrices.com's Jon Vickers Movie Catalog
		Between the years 1954 and 1956, master tenor Jon Vickers displayed talent that went beyond the call in more than a few performances that were captured and televised by Radio Canada.
		Jon Vickers, the Canadian tenor, won many acclaims for his performance in the lead role.
		Jon Vickers plays Samson while Shirley Verrett plays Dalila in this production of the classic tale, which was performed at the Royal Opera House.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/actors/dvds-by-actor-Jon-Vickers.html (280 words)

	Movie Info for Jon Vickers: Four Operatic Portraits on MSN Movies
		Jon Vickers is looked upon as one of the more celebrated in the league of American tenors.
		In Jon Vickers: Four Operatic Portraits, he is backed by the National Arts Centre Orchestra, conducted by Franz-Paul Decker.
		Vickers demonstrates his wide range of versatility and ability to take on the persona of the characters as well as interpret the music.
	movies.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=34994 (106 words)

	Jon Vickers Interview
		Jon Vickers was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan Canada in October of 1926.
		No matter what one thinks of Vickers the singer, there is yet another side of Jon Vickers to contend with, and that is the philosophical.
		Occasionally controversial, always vital, Jon Vickers is one of the most special artists to have come along in many a year.
	www.bruceduffie.com /vickers.html (5420 words)

	Jon Vickers Autographs (Opera Tenor) -- Classical Autographs
		Canadian tenor Jon Vickers was born in 1926 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
		This is a Met Program cast sheet autographed by tenor Jon Vickers, soprano Mirella Freni, and mezzo-soprano Shirley Verrett.
		We are members of the UACC and abide by their ethics code.
	classicalautographs.com /autographs/opera/jon_vickers.html (289 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jon Vickers played the most demanding of operatic hero roles brilliantly.
		The book is primarily composed of hundreds of interviews with those who knew and worked with Vickers, news articles about various performances, television and video performances and interviews, and the author's own opera experiences, stitched together in a portrait of the artist.
		Vickers, an intensely private man who believes that his art should speak for himself, did not cooperate with the creation of this book in any way.
	www.forewordmagazine.com /reviews/printreviews.aspx?reviewID=1322 (429 words)

	Jon Vickers - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Jon Vickers - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Voight, Jon, born in 1938, American film actor, who starred as a naive hustler in Midnight Cowboy (1969) and won an Academy Award for best actor for...
		Search for books about your topic, "Jon Vickers"
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	In Concert: Karl Bohm and Jon Vickers
		In Concert: Karl Bohm and Jon Vickers (1965)
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	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/in_concert_karl_bohm_and_jon_vickers (363 words)

	Overstock.com: Jon Vickers - Early Telecasts Radio Canada, 1954-1956 (DVD) : Movies
		Description: Between the years 1954 and 1956, master tenor Jon Vickers displayed talent that went beyond the call in more than a few performances that were captured and televised by Radio Canada.
		This program features the best of those telecasts and includes Vickers along with Eva Likova, Robert Savoie, Louis Quilico, and Pierre Boutet in a series of phenomenal operatic masterworks.
		Backed by the Orchestre symphonique de Radio-Canada and staged by the legendary Irving Guttman, PAGLIACCI, MANON LESCAUT, TOSCA, and IL TRAVATORE are all performed in part and led by the unmistakable voice of Jon Vickers.
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	A guide to Jon Vickers on DVD. Industry & Business Article - Research, News, Information, Contacts, Divisions, ...
		Canadian tenor Jon Vickers (born 1926) was one of the most remarkable singing actors of the 20th century.
		His performances, marked by a unique blend of dramatic insight, impeccable musicianship and intense commitment, were often overwhelming in their impact.
		In fact, if one heard and saw a Vickers performance in the theatre, it was usually burned into one's musical memory.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/gi_0199-2679028/A-guide-to-Jon-Vickers.html (356 words)

	Amazon.com: Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life: Books: Jeannie Williams,Birgit Nilsson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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		Anyone who loves great acting can find inspiration if not enjoyment in Opera from seeing or hearing the great singing actors of our history like Callas, Gobbi, and most especially Jon Vickers.
	www.amazon.com /Jon-Vickers-Heros-Jeannie-Williams/dp/1555534082 (2692 words)

	Jon Vickers: Four Operatic Portraits
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Jon Vickers: Four Operatic Portraits to receive a rating.
		Celebrated operatic tenor Jon Vickers performs four fully-staged scenes portraying the following characters: Handel's Samson, Beethoven's Florestan (from "Fidelio"), Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, and Verdi's Otello.
		George Clooney goes noir in this tale of a hard-boiled reporter, a dame, and the mystery that envelops them both in post-WWII Berlin.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/jon_vickers_four_operatic_portraits (338 words)

	Amazon.ca: Vickers, Jon/Bohm, K-Various: Art Of Karl Bohm: DVD: Karl Bohm,Jon Vickers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vickers, Jon/Bohm, K-Various: Art Of Karl Bohm (1963)
		Included in this DVD are three arias sang by Jon Vickers, a world famous tenor with a voice and style particularly well suited to German lieders.
		He sang from a stage at least 2 meters behind and above the members of the orchestra.
	www.amazon.ca /Vickers-Jon-Bohm-K-Various-Karl/dp/B00008WT5V (454 words)

	Enoch Arden - Narrated by Jon Vickers (2 CDs)
		Enoch Arden - Narrated by Jon Vickers (2 CDs)
		Jon Vickers Narrates Strauss: Enoch Arden, (Op 38) (Richard Strauss)
		The legendary opera star Jon Vickers makes his recording debut as speaker in this powerful and moving performance.
	www.vaimusic.com /CD/1179-2.htm (243 words)

	Jon Vickers films on DVD & VHS - MovieMail UK
		Jon Vickers films on DVD & VHS - MovieMail UK Empty
		A famous production of Benjamin Britten's opera 'Peter Grimes', with the Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis.
		Jon Vickers: Early Telecasts From Radio Canada - 1954-1956
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /stars/6562/Jon_Vickers (206 words)

	Amazon.com: Jon Vickers In Concert: Music: Antonin Dvorak,Henry Purcell,Alessandro Scarlatti,Robert Schumann,Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Amazon.com: Jon Vickers In Concert: Music: Antonin Dvorak,Henry Purcell,Alessandro Scarlatti,Robert Schumann,Richard Woitach,Jon Vickers
		Brings the CD to an excellent conclusion, and convincing me to give the CD 4 stars instead of 3.
		Probably best for someone who knows the context of this 1967 recording of Vickers.
	www.amazon.com /Jon-Vickers-Concert-Antonin-Dvorak/dp/B000003LJ5 (859 words)

	JON VICKERS ténor tenor canadien discographie opéra Nozze di Figaro Otello Parsifal Mozart Verdi Wagner ...
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		Jon Vickers in Parsifal, Jon Vickers in Fidelio and Jon Vickers in Otello,
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