Alfredo Kraus
Alfredo Kraus Trujillo, known professionally as Alfredo Kraus, was a Spanish
lyric tenor born November 24, 1927, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Kraus
began piano lessons at age 4 and sang in his school choir at age 8. He made his
international operatic debut in Cairo in 1956 as the Duke of Mantua in
Rigoletto. He subsequently debuted at major opera houses, including the Royal
Opera House in London as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (1959), La Scala in
Milan as Elvino in La sonnambula (1959), the Chicago Lyric Opera (1962), and the
Metropolitan Opera in New York as the Duke ...
