De Reszke Family Tree
Mama De Reszke
Ciaffei, Warsaw (also taught Edouard De Reszke)
Faldi (taught A.C. ca. 1848-1852)
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Antonio Cotogni, Milan (1831-1918)
Considered the great baritone of his time
Taught ‘94-’98 St.Petersburg, ‘99- Milan
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (later w/ Enrico Rosati)
Beniamino Gigli (later w/Enrico Rosati)
Mattia Battistini
Giuseppe Di Luca
Leonard Warren,
Lorenzo Malfatti
Sbrilia, Milan (helped De Reszke retrain as tenor; but most of this done on his own, accdg to other sources)
Jean De Reszke, Nice (1850-1925)
Tadeusz Leliwa, Warsaw
(Waclaw Brzenzinski, Warsaw)
(Selva, Orefice)
(Edoardo Garbin, Milan)
Jan Kiepura, (1906-1966)
(Elena Theodorini, Rio de Janeiro(Ital/Romanian))
Bidu Sayão
Leo Slezak (2 years)
Maggie Teyte (prize pupil, representative exponent; Gary O’Connor Publ’d her exercises)
Edith De Lys (2 yrs, notebooks published posthumously)
Florence Stevens (JDR protégé; taught his methods; he referred Adelina Patti to her)
(Harold Butler, SyracuseU.)
(Arthur Alexander, L.A.)
Richard Bonelli (spent 2 months w/ JDR)
Arthur Endrèze (American Bar., trnd w/ JDR, 1922-?, Paris Opera)
Hardesty Johnson, NYC
Beverly Johnson, Juilliard, NYC
Renee Fleming
Bernadette Peters
Kevin Kline (!)
(etc.)
Fred Carama, L.A./NYC
Victoria Hart, L.A.
Alan August (2011-)
Robert White
Bruce Sledge, NY
Robert J. MacNeil, LA
Elin Carlson, LA
Alison England, Trinidad, NM (Dept Chair, Trinidad State Junior College)
Monica Yunus, NY
Lise Lindstrom, NY
Susan Holsonbake, NY
Lester Lynch, NY
Wonjung Kim,NY
Mary Abadjian
Alicia Irving
Michael Gallup
Julie Robles
Craig Gilmore
Melodee Fernandez, etc.
Janice McVeigh, USC
Angelique Burzynski, L.A.
Won Jung Kim, L.A.
Mary Ann McPhee Bosnos, Scottsdale, AZ
Alan August, L.A. (ca. 1990-2008)
Ross Kalling, L.A.
Note: bold indicates teacher or influential singer; parenthesis indicate teachers not in Cotogni/De Reszke line)