George Maran, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGeorge Maran
opera singer
Date of Birth: 25-Jul-1926
Date of Death: 01-Jan-2011
Profession: singer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About George Maran
- George Alfred Maran (July 25, 1926 – Nov 26, 2011) was an American opera, oratorio, and concert tenor.
- Born near Boston, Massachusetts.
- Maran attended Harvard University where he and his voice came to the attention of people such as Leonard Bernstein and Paul Hindemith.
- He first drew international attention when he won the “Mozart-Medaille”(Mozart Medal) from the Mozarteum International Foundation in Salzburg in 1956 on Mozart’s 200th birthday.
- The same year, and the next forty years thereafter, he was a soloist at the Opera in Darmstadt, Germany.
- Even so, he continued singing all over Europe and the United States, the world premiere of A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera) with Benjamin Britten conducting as a prime example.
- He has sung many wide-ranging and varied genres as soloist in opera, operetta, oratorio, and on the concert stage.
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