{"id":2601,"date":"2013-07-29T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T10:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faujsa.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:19:26","slug":"cantor-stephen-texon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/events-general-interest\/cantor-stephen-texon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cantor Stephen Texon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"206\" height=\"249\" src=\"http:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/texon.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Cantor Stephen Texon\" class=\"wp-image-2712\" title=\"texon\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Equally at home on the opera stage and in the synagogue, Stephen Texon\u2019s successful and distinguished singing career spans decades. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Judaica Sound Archives is delighted to add the voice of Cantor Stephen Texon to its distinguished online collection of Cantorial and operatic recordings. A native New Yorker, Texon studied at Yeshiva University and NYU. His rich baritone voice was a natural for the opera stage and he was inspired to pursue operatic training in Geneva, Switzerland and at the Met in NYC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growing up during the heyday of the Catskill Mountain resorts, Texon was chosen by Sholem Secunda (legendary Yiddish theater composer and conductor) to be the baritone soloist in his choir at the Concord Hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His operatic talents allowed him to perform on stage with such stars as Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill, Placido Domingo and Jerome Hines. But it was the experience of actually performing in a full dress rehearsal performance of \u201cLa Traviata\u201d as the understudy for Robert Merrill that remains both a personal and professional highlight for Stephen Texon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rsa.fau.edu\/stephen-texon\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a> to listen to the music of Stephen Texon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equally at home on the opera stage and in the synagogue, Stephen Texon\u2019s successful and distinguished singing career spans decades. The Judaica Sound Archives is delighted to add the voice of Cantor Stephen Texon to its distinguished online collection of Cantorial and operatic recordings. A native New Yorker, Texon studied at Yeshiva University and NYU. 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