Anton Dermota

Anton Dermota (born the June 4th 1910 with Kropa, Slovenia - died the June 22nd 1989 with Vienna, Austria) was a lyric Ténor Yugoslav, singer of operas and sacred music.

He studied initially the composition and the Orgue with Ljubljana before coming to study the song in Vienna in 1934. In 1936 it made its beginnings with the Opéra of State of the Austrian capital, become its town of residence, in the role of Don Ottavio of Don Giovanni. But it is in the immediate future post-war period that its career will know a true explosion. That it is with the Festival of Salzburg or with the Metropolitan Opera, with the Scala or the Opéra Garnier, Dermota was acclaimed everywhere like one of the best interpreters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jean-Sebastien Bach but also Richard Strauss of his generation. Endowed with a voice very enduring, it made some incursions at Richard Wagner, Giacomo Puccini and even Giuseppe Verdi, and left an imposing recording - perhaps most memorable of all its career - extremely difficult part of tenor of the Oratorio the Book with the seven seals of Franz Schmidt. Accompanied with the piano by his wife Hilde Shepherd-Weyerwald, it also shone in the interpretation of the Voyage from winter of Franz Schubert, of which there exists a recording.

Anton Dermota was immensely admired on the vocal and technical level, and much of his/her colleagues and successors (Ernst Haefliger, Nicolai Gedda, Fritz Wunderlich, Peter Schreier) were measured with his alder.

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Biography in English, with photographs

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