Alfredo Kraus, the tenor, married with four children, was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on the 4th November 1927.

In 1956 he enrolled in the Conservatoire of Milan, where he had Mercedes Llopart for a teacher. He entered for the Geneva International Song Contest, reaching the finals and, there and then, he signed his first contract to make his debut with the opera Rigolleto in Cairo. His international launch took place in Lisbon, singing La Traviata with Maria Callas.

From then on he began a dazzling career which took him to the world´s most important theatres. Among the works which have been his most outstanding successes are Werther, Lucia, La Traviata, Manon, Falstaff, Y Puritani, Cossi fan Tutte, Tales of Hoffman, Don Juan, La sonnambula and La Favorite.

The most stylish of performers of works of great difficulty, he has been awarded numerous prizes and honours: the National Prize for Lyric Theatre, the Golden Stall of the Canaries (1976), the Gold Medal of Las Palmas (1980), the Gold Bellini (1981), the Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (1981), the Cravat of a Knight Commander of Arts and Letters of France (1984) and Italy´s Caruso Prize (1987).