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Alan Wagner (March 11, 1939 – November 2, 2018) was an American baritone and voice teacher. A native of Longmont, Colorado, he began his career as a member of the United States Army Chorus from 1961 to 1964. He moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1965 where he began his opera career performing with the Pittsburgh Opera and the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera while a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the music faculty at West Chester University in 1967 where he worked as a voice professor for 37 years. He concurrently had a career as both a concert and opera baritone; working primarily with opera companies in Pennsylvania and in Delaware. He sang leading roles in operas with many well known singers, including Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel Ramey, Mary Costa, and Shirley Verrett among many others.