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Kurt Streit
Kurt Streit (born 14 October 1959 in Itazuke, Fukuoka, Japan) is an Austrian-American tenor who performs in operas.
Education.
Kurt Streit studied at the University of New Mexico with Marilyn Tyler.
Career.
Streit started his career at American opera houses such as San Francisco, Santa Fe, Dallas, the Texas Opera Theater and the Milwaukee Skylight Comic Opera.
His European career started with the Hamburg Staatsoper, where he sang in operas by Mozart, Donizetti, and Rossini
was nominated for a Grammy award for his recording of Brahms' Liebeslieder-Walzer.
Streit is considered a Mozart specialist and has performed in 23 different productions of Mozart's Zauberflöte and 7 different productions of Mozart's Idomeneo, just to name a few of his many international appearances in Mozart operas. His repertoire stretches from works of Händel and Monteverdi as well as Beethoven and 19th and 20th century composers such as Wagner, Johann Strauss, Berlioz and Janáček.
Personal life.
Kurt Streit was born in Japan as the