Ellsworth, Warren (1950–1993)

American tenor. He studied at Juilliard and sang first at Houston as a baritone (as Malatesta, Almaviva, and Escamillo); he returned in 1979 as a tenor (singing Pinkerton). He made his Welsh National Opera debut in 1981 as Smetana's Jenik, and sang Parsifal in 1983. He repeated the role under Goodall with the English National Opera Ensemble in 1986, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, under Haitink in 1988. He sang Siegmund for the Welsh National Opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1986 and at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, from 1989, where he also sang Don José, Lohengrin, Max, and Samson. He made US appearances at San Francisco (as Boris in Káta Kabanová), Los Angeles (as Drum Major) and Washington (as Nerone). He sang Shostakovich's Sergei for the English National Opera Ensemble in 1991.