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Richard Tucker Music Foundation

Richard Tucker (1913-1975) was America's greatest tenor and this Foundation is his legacy. To learn more about Richard Tucker, click here.

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Telecast of 2007 Richard Tucker Gala!

Thanks to the generous support of Wynnchurch Capital, the 2007 Gala was taped for telecast.  Please watch this space for the date and time of the telecast!

2007 Richard Tucker Gala

On November 4, 2007, the Richard Tucker Foundation held its annual Richard Tucker Gala at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall before a sold-out house.

Featured aritsts included Renee Fleming, Joyce Di Donato, Maria Guleghina, Luciana D'Intino, Diana Damrau, Simon Keenlyside, Matthew Polenzani, Eric Cutler and 2007 Richard Tucker Award winner Brandon Jovanovich. 

Maestro Asher Fisch conducted members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the New York Choral Society.

For photgraphs of the concert and post concert dinner, click here.

Following two days of auditions, the Board of the Richard Tucker Foundation is proud to announce the winners of the 2008 grants.

Sara Tucker Study Grants:

Caitlin Lynch, soprano

Heidi Melton, soprano

Tamara Wilson, soprano

Richard Tucker Career Grants:

Angela Meade, soprano

Timothy Mix, baritone

Susanna Phillips, soprano

The Richard Tucker Award was not awarded for 2008.

2008 Sara Tucker Study Grants 

and Richard Tucker Career Grants

Winners announced:

2008  Richard Tucker Gala

The annual Richard Tucker Music Foundation Opera Gala will be held in the fall of 2008 at Avery Fisher Hall. Invitations will be mailed during the summer of 2008.  If you wish to recieve and invtiations, please contact the Foundation.