Archie Drake
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Archie Drake (1925 - May 24, 2006) was an opera singer for Seattle Opera. He performed over 1,000 times over 39 seasons. Archie Drake's last performance was "Macbeth (opera)". A few days after his performance he died after suffering a massive coronary.
Archie Drake was born in 1925 in Great Yarmouth Norfolk, England, and became a sailor at the age of 15.[1] He served as a Deckhand in the Merchant Navy (United Kingdom) during World War II. While working onshore in Vancouver, Washington in the 1950s, Drake joined a local choir and was recommended to Lotte Lehmann at the Music Academy of the West. She encouraged him to audition and he made his San Francisco Opera debut in 1968 as Rambaldo in Rondine. That same year he was asked to appear in the Seattle Opera's 1968 production of Fidelio; he was offered a contract as a permanent member of the company the next year. Archie Drake joined the Merchant Navy (United Kingdom) in 1939 at the age of 14. He served during the Second World War and arrvied via a boat to Port Angeles, Washington. In 1956 at the age of 31 he had his first American Property in California. Following a job oppurtunity at Seattle Opera, He switched his main residence and property to Seattle.[2]
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- ↑ https://playbill.com/article/archie-drake-longtime-seattle-opera-bass-baritone-dies-at-81
- ↑ The Obituary Daily Times (2012). "Orbituary Daily Times". The Orbituary Daily Times. p. 1. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
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