Oszkár Kálmán

Oszkár Kálmán (June 19, 1887 - September 17, 1971) was a Hungarian bass, remembered as the first Bluebeard. He was born in Kisszentpéter^[1] (in present day Romania) and in 1913 made his debut as Sarastro at the Royal Opera House in Budapest, ^[2] where created the title role of Béla Bartók's opera A kékszakállú herceg vára in 1918. He was among the first singers of Zoltán Kodály's opus 9 songs at the Budapest conservatory. ^[3] By the 1920s he was resident at the Berlin Staatsoper, ^[4] and in 1929 he took part in the premiere of Brecht's Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis with music by Paul Hindemith. In 1941 he was singing Osmin at the Goldmark Theatre in Budapest ^[5].

Kálmán died in Budapest in 1971 .

References

1. ^ German Wikipedia article
2. ^ Baker's
3. ^ Universal Edition catalog
4. ^ The Social Construction of Hungarian Genius, paper by Tibor Frank
5. ^ Jewish Budapest: Monuments, Rites, History by Kinga Frojimovics, Géza Komoróczy, Viktoria Pusztai, Andrea Strbik, Central European University Press, 1999. ISBN 963-9116-37-8

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Name	Kalman, Oszkar
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Date of birth	June 19, 1887
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Date of death	September 17, 1971
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