Eugene Conley

Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Conley studied under Ettore Verna, and made his official debut as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1940.

He also sang with the Opéra-Comique in Paris, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (I puritani, 1950; then Les vêpres siciliennes opposite Maria Callas, 1951), and Covent Garden in London.

In his retirement year, he presented a joint recital at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, with soprano Maria Powell.

In 1999, VAI published, on Compact Discs, a 1952 performance of Rigoletto from the New Orleans Opera Association, with Leonard Warren, Hilde Gueden, Conley, and the young Norman Treigle as Count Monterone, conducted by Walter Herbert.

Eugene Sr. married next, in 1948, star of the opera, Winifred Heidt, born Huntoon - Dallas Morning News, March 19, 1948.