Shicoff, Neil (1949– )

US tenor. He studied at the Juilliard School, New York, where he sang in the first performance of Virgil Thomson's Lord Byron (1972). His first major role was as Ernani at Cincinnati (1979). From 1976 he appeared in New York at the Metropolitan Opera House, as Rinuccio, Lensky, the Duke of Mantua, Werther, Hoffmann, Faust, and Don Carlos. He enjoyed a European career from 1976, with Cilea's Maurizio at Munich and Pinkerton at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (1978, returning in 1993). He made further appearances in Chicago and San Francisco.