Imre Palló Portrait Imre Palló (23 October 1891 in Mátisfalva, Transylvania – 25 January 1978 in Budapest) was a Hungarian baritone , and later opera house manager.[ 1]
Palló studied in Budapest with Georg Anthes and in Italy with Mario Sammarco.[ 1] Alfio at the Royal Opera House in 1917, where he went on to sing many lyric baritone roles, such as Posa , Luna , Falstaff and Simon Boccanegra , in a career lasting over 35 years.[ 2] Háry János Székelyfonó [ 1] Cantata profana under Ernő Dohnányi in 1936.
The Kossuth Prize was awarded to him in 1949.[ 3] [ 1]
Palló's recordings, dating from 1928 to 1961, include songs and excerpts from works by Balázs, Bartók, Erkel, Kodály; operatic arias by Verdi, Wagner and Mussorgsky, among others.[ 4]
His son (same name, born 1941) was a conductor at New York City Opera and Frankfurt Opera .[ 1]
References
^ a b c d e Várnai PP. Imre Palló. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London & New York, 1997.
^ Kutsch KJ, Riemens L. Imre Palló. In : Unvergängliche Stimmen: Sängerlexikon. Francke Verlag, Bern and Munchen, 1982.
^ Kossuth Prize website lists. Accessed 10 June 2011.^ Discographical data mainly taken from the CHARM Discography, Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, <http://www.charm.kcl.ac.uk/about/about_structure >, accessed 10 June 2011.
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