Richard Tucker (2)
American operatic tenor and cantor, born Rivn (Rubin) Ticker, Aug. 28, 1913, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S. died Jan. 8, 1975, Kalamazoo, Mich., he first sang as a member of a synagogue choir and on radio, then studied voice with Paul Althouse and made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1945.