Stefan Zucker

Stefan Zucker hosted the radio program

“Opera Fanatic,” on which many of the interviews

in his current and forthcoming books took place.

They included forty-three hours of interviews with

Franco Corelli, with whom he also appeared

five times in An Evening in the Theater With

Franco Corelli and Stefan Zucker and master

classes.

He appears as commentator and interviewer

in ten opera documentaries, among

them The Tenors of the 78 Era and Opera Fanatic

(aka Stefan and the Divas). He is the

author of The Origins of Modern Tenor Singing

(Bel Canto Society, 1997) and more than

650 articles and reviews in American Record

Guide, Globe & Mail, International Dictionary

of Opera, Opera Fanatic, Opera News, The Opera

Quarterly, Professione Musica, etc. Some

editions of the Guinness Book of World Records

list him as “The World’s Highest Tenor.”

He taught philosophy in several New York area

colleges and has lectured on the history of

singing at the Mannes College of Music and

the Museum of Modern Art.

In 1951 Franco was his baby-sitter, in Italy, where Stefan’s

mother was singing.