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. He wielded his instrument with all the dramatic and technical skills one could ever expect. Rogers was highly regarded in early music and Baroque repertory and made over 70 recordings in his career.