Born: February 22, 1934 - Chicago, Illinois, USA

The American bass, Thomas Paul, studied at the Juilliard School of Music New York with Hans Heinz, and for orchestra conducting. He studied singing with Beverly Johnson, Gibner Kind and Cornelius Reid, New York.

Thomas Paul's stage debut was in 1962 at the New York City Centre Opera as Sparafucile in Rigoletto. His career took place particularly in the USA and in Canada. There he sang in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Houston/Texas, in New Orleans, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Paul, in Boston, San Francisco, Washington, Vancouver and Montreal, but mostly at the New York City Centre Opera New York. In 1964 he worked also with the Central City Festival in the premiere of the opera Lady from Colorado by Ward, which was also performed at the Aspen Festival.

From Thomas Paul's stage repertoire should be mentioned: Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Sarastro in Zauberflöte, Pogner in Meistersingern, the title role in Blue-Beard Castle by Béla Bartók, Mephisto in Faust by Charles Gounod, the Father in Charpentier’s Louise, Pater Guardian in La forza del destino by Verdi, Rocco in Fidelio, Tiresias in Oedipus Rex by Stravinsky, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Ptolemaeus in Julius Cäsar by Händel and Don Marco into The Saint of Bleecker Street by Menotti. In the concert halls he also performed a comprehensive repertoire.

Thomas Paul was lecturer at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester (New York) and at the Aspen School (Colorado).

Recordings: DGG (Brander in complete recording of Damnation de Faust by Berlioz).

Source: Operissimo Website, English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2004)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (May 2004)

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