Yoshihisa yamaji biography of abraham

After vocal studies in Tokyo, he started singing with the Nikikai opera troupe in 1976. A year later, he went to Italy for further studies, first at the Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome, then at La Scala, where he sang a small role in Mosè in Egitto in 1979.

From 1979 to 1985, he was a member of the Vienna Staatsoper.

He was basically a comprimario (Beppe, Arturo in Lucia, the Fool in Wozzeck, Gastone and so on), but also got to sing Almaviva, Fenton, Nemorino, Ernesto and Don Ramiro. I heard him regularly in those years, and his name on the playbill rather had us roll our eyes. He sang way too open, and consequently blasted out the top notes in a less than pleasant way.

From 1982, he sang primarily in Munich, but also a lot in Japan, where he had always returned every year to sing with Nikikai first, and from 1986 with the Fujiwara Opera Company/Japan Opera Foundation.

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