Frederick Dalberg
Frederick Dalberg (1907 – 1988)[1] was an opera bass and a theatre producer/director.
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Biography
He was born in England and grew up in Pretoria.
Training
He furthered his studies in singing in Dresden in 1930, joined the Leipzig opera (1931) and was later contracted to the Berlin State Opera.
Career
From 1946-1949 he was first bass at the Munich State Opera and became first bass at Covent Garden from 1951 to 1957. In 1960 he joined the Mannheim State Theatre and was simultaneously a lecturer in singing at the Music Academy in Mannheim. During his career, he sang in major European cities and at the Bayreuth Festival in 1937 and 1951.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He participated in opera and concerts in South Africa in the fifties and sixties and settled in South Africa in 1970, lecturing singing part-time at the Stellenbosch Conservatoire.
He appeared as Baculus in Die Wilddief for the Pretoria Opera Group (1961).
As producer/director:
1971: Die Zauberflöte for CAPAB
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Dalberg
Alexandra Xenia Sabina Mossolow[2]. 2003. The career of South African soprano Nellie du Toit, born 1929. Unpublished Masters thesis. University of Stellenbosch.[3]
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