FEDOR, Guglielmo [MATWEITSCH DE BECKER, Wilhelm Ferdinand] (b ?Russia, c 1823; d Eltham, Kent, 15 October 1870)

This chapter presents a biography of mid- to late-19th-century singer Guglielmo Fedor. In 1845 he was seen concertising at Konigsberg. He was spotted first as an operatic vocalist occurs in April of 1842. In 1852, Herr or Mons Fedor was hired by Alfred Bunn for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and he made his British debut singing the title-role in Robert the Devil on 23 January, In October 1852, at the Grand Theatre de Marseille, where for a short stay he was found a 'jeune artiste a la voix sympathetique', at the Pergola Theatre in Florence with Frezzolini, at the Sant'Elisabetta at Messina (Rigoletto), and, at Modena, he sang in I puritani, in Mercadante's Leonora and in Luisa Miller. He sang at the Salle Herz in 1855, then in I due Foscari at Modena in 1857 before getting ill and dropping out.