A more unlikely world opera star than Paul Frey could not be found.
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Entering opera school unable to read musical notes or count beats, Frey was offered primarily chorus roles during training and after graduation.
But he was a young man with a powerful and true tenor voice, and a desire to sing opera.
His first career was as a truck driver, transporting livestock to market.
Born into a conservative order Mennonite farming family in rural Ontario, Canada in 1941, he was a high school dropout.
A more unlikely world opera star than Paul Frey could not be found