Dezső Ernster [SEP] occupation
Dezső Ernster
Dezső Ernster (23 November 1898 – 15 February 1981) was a Hungarian opera singer who sang leading bass roles with the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1946 to 1963. In 1929, he created the role of Baron d'Houdoux in Hindemith's "Neues vom Tage".
Biography.
Dezső Ernster was born in Pécs, the son of a cantor, and studied in Budapest and Vienna. He made his debut in Plauen in eastern Germany, as Hermann in "Tannhäuser" in the 1924–1925 season. From
H. and Warrack, J. "Ernster, Dezső", "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera", 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 1979, pp. 155–156.
- Further reading
- Imre, Fábián, "Ernster Dezső", Zeneműkiadó, 1969 (in Hungarian with an introduction by Otto Klemperer)
- Di Cave, Luciano, "Mille voci una stella: il contributo degli esecutori vocali ebrei o di origine ebraica alla musica operistica e classica", Carucci Editore, 1985 (in Italian)