Charles Bressler (1926-1996) was an American tenor, active in opera, concert music and twentieth-century repertory. He was particularly associated with demanding modern works and with American musical life after the Second World War.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Leonard Bernstein’s performance of Liszt’s A Faust Symphony, singing the tenor part in the final choral movement.

Bressler’s voice and musicianship suited repertory requiring clarity, accuracy and a clean lyric line. He belonged to the generation of American singers comfortable in both standard and newer music.

This is a focused entry, but a legitimate one. Bressler’s page records an artist whose work sat at the meeting point of concert tradition and modern American performance.