Streit, Kurt
Streit, Kurt (b Itazuke, Japan, 1959). Amer. tenor. Sang with Milwaukee Skylight comic opera and in Dallas. Eur. début with Hamburg Opera. Salzburg Fest. début 1989; Glyndebourne 1990; CG 1993.
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