Nigel Rogers

Tenor Nigel Rogers led a highly colorful and varied music career, primarily singing in concerts and recitals, serving as a professor of music at the Royal College of Music, founding the choral ensemble Chiaroscuro and (as a late-comer) taking up conducting. Moreover, the early years of his career were spent in Germany, and his operatic debut came only in 1969. For all his multifaceted talents, though, he was above all a great singer. Rogers was born in Wellington, Shropshire, England, on March 21, 1935. From 1953 to 1956, he studied music at Cambridge University (King's Coll...