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{{Short description|American opera singer (1935–2015)}}
'''Don Yule''' (January 28, 1935, [[Enid, Oklahoma]] — July 3, 2015, [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]]) was an American [[opera]]tic [[bass (voice type)|bass]] who performed regularly with the [[New York City Opera]] (NYCO) for fifty years.<ref name="ON">{{cite news|url=https://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2015/11/Departments/Obituaries.html|title=Obituary: Don Yule|work=[[Opera News]]|date=November 2015|volume=80|number=5}}</ref> A graduate of the [[Jacobs School of Music]] at [[Indiana University]], he joined the NYCO in 1960 where he made his debut as  Gluttony in a revival of [[Hugo Weisgall]]’s ''[[Six Characters in Search of an Author (opera)|Six Characters in Search of an Author]]''.<ref name="ON"/> He went on to perform in a total of 83 roles with the NYCO in more than 1,700 performances, most often in [[comprimario]] parts.<ref name="ON"/> Some of the roles he was associated with included Alcindoro and Benoit in [[Giacomo Puccini]]'s ''[[La Bohème]]'', Antonio and Bartolo in Mozart's ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'', Dr. Grenvil in [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s ''[[La Traviata]]'', and the Jailer and the Sacristan in Puccini's ''[[Tosca]]''.<ref name="ON"/>
Yule notably created the role of Professor Grippel in the world premiere of [[Gian Carlo Menotti]]'s ''[[The Most Important Man]]'' in 1971.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/14/archives/the-opera-menottis-important-man.html|title=The Opera: Menotti's ''Important Man''|author=[[Harold C. Schonberg]]|date=March 14, 1971|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> In 1982 he portrayed the Huntsman and the Bulgarian Soldier in [[Hal Prince]]'s celebrated revival of [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s ''[[Candide (operetta)|Candide]]'' which was filmed for national broadcast on [[PBS]]'s ''[[Live from Lincoln Center]]''.<ref name="TV">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f1idRg3iNb0C&dq=john+lankston&pg=PA42|title=The Arts on Television, 1976-1990; Fifteen Years of Cultural Programming|author=Brian O'Doherty, Rebecca Krafft|publisher=[[National Endowment for the Arts]]|year=1991|isbn=9780160359262 }}</ref> He later performed the roles of the First Inquisitioner, Don,  and Judge on the NYCO's recording of the work which won the [[Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording]] in 1987.<ref>{{cite news|title=Music Records: Vets Dominate Grammy Awards; Simon's 'Graceland' Is Top LP; Gabriel, Jackson Empty Handed|author=Henry Schipper|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=March 4, 1987|volume=326|issue=6|page=113}}</ref> His final performance with the NYCO was in 2010.<ref name="ON"/> He died at his home in Brooklyn in 2015 at the age of 80.<ref name="ON"/>
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