This man sang the role of a jailer in a 1981 recording of Tosca conducted by James Levine, but he is better known as an instrumentalist, playing on a Stradivarius formerly owned by Yehudi Menuhin.
This man sang the role of a jailer in a 1981 recording of Tosca conducted by James Levine, but he is better known as an instrumentalist, playing on a Stradivarius formerly owned by Yehudi Menuhin. The music advisor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra from 2002 to 2004, this musician was the soloist in the 2005 film Memoirs of a Geisha, as well as the 1993 film (*) Schindler's List. Along with Gabriela Montero, Anthony McGill, and Yo-Yo Ma, this man performed "Air and Simple Gifts" at the 2009 presidential inauguration ceremony. For ten points, name this Israeli-American, polio-stricken violinist.
This man sang the role of a jailer in a 1981 recording of Tosca conducted by James Levine, but he is better known as an instrumentalist, playing on a Stradivarius formerly owned by Yehudi Menuhin.
Itzhak {Perlman}