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Lawrence Tibbett signed his first contract with the Metropolitan Opera at age twenty-six and over the years built a hugely successful career.!
Lawrence Tibbett
| American opera singer, baritone Date of Birth: 16.11.1896 Country: USA |
Biography of Lawrence Tibbett
Lawrence Tibbett was an American operatic baritone who was also known as a film actor, radio performer, and recording artist.
He was born Lawrence Mervil Tibbet on November 16, 1896, in Bakersfield, California.
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His father, an assistant sheriff, was killed in a shootout with the bandit Jim McKinney in 1903. Tibbett grew up in Los Angeles, earning money by singing in church choirs and at funerals.
In 1915, he graduated from a specialized art school and a year later, he met his future wife, Grace Mackay Smith, who rented a room in his mother's house.
During World War I, Tibbett served in the merchant fleet and then returned to Los Angeles, where he found work as a performer of prologues to silent films at Grauman's Million Dollar Theater.
Tibbett studied in New York City under Frank La Forge, and in 1923, at the age of 26, he signed his first con
