Robert Weede
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Robert Weede was an American operatic baritone.
Weede at right with Jan Peerce and Jean Tennyson on the radio program "Great Moments in Music", 1942
Christopher Columbus (Zador)
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Christopher Columbus is an opera in one act by composer Eugene Zador with a German-language libretto by Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria. Zador, a Hungarian Jew, wrote the opera while voyaging acros
Robert Weede
…Chicago (1939), San Francisco (1940), and at the New York City Opera (1948). In 1939 he portrayed the title role in the world premiere of Eugene Zador's Christopher Columbus at the Center Theatre. At the New York City Opera, Weede also sang in Pagliacci and in the world premiere of William Grant Still's Troubled Island…
Christopher Columbus on the Santa María as depicted in Emanuel Leutze's 1855 painting.