You are bidding on one signed photo as well as a autograph quote with staff of Austrian-Yugoslav opera singer (lyric tenor) Anton Dermota (1910-1989).

From the estate of a Berlin autograph collector who personally received autographs from singers and actors from the 1930s to the 1970s or had them mailed to him by the artists (some of the envelopes are still there).

1.) Nice photo, on the motif side with a handwritten dedication. Dated Berlin, 14.XII.60.

Format: 14 x 9.1 cm (image area 11 x 8.2 cm).

2.) A4 sheet, written on half of the page.

On beautiful laid paper (Römerturm Bütten).

With autograph staves, including autograph dedication:

"With dignity and majesty...

(Haydn 'creation')

Sincerely, Anton Dermota

Berlin 14.XII.61."

Enclosed in protective sheet, with handwritten attribution "Anton Dermota Kammersänger."

Condition: Photo slightly bent, otherwise excellent condition. Album leaf folded and slightly creased. BPlease note also the pictures!

Internal note: Opera 21-04

OverAnton Dermota (Source: wikipedia):

Anton Dermota (b. 4. June 1910 in Kropa, Austria-Hungary; † 22 June 1989 in Vienna) was an Austrian-Yugoslavian opera singer (lyric tenor) with his main residence in Vienna.

Life: Anton Dermota first studied composition and organ in Ljubljana (Laibach) and then received a singing scholarship in Vienna. In 1934 he made his debut in Cluj (Klausenburg). In 1936 the conductor Bruno Walter heard him and engaged him at the Vienna State Opera, where he was 1. Armored debuted in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Magic Flute. He soon received his first leading roles (first Alfredo in La traviata, 1937) and developed into a Viennese darling of the public.

During this time he experienced the greatest catastrophe of the State Opera, when it died on April 13. It went up in flames during an Allied air raid on March 19, 1945 and helped rescue sheet music and furnishings from the flames. He remained loyal to the State Opera even in its provisional quarters in the Theater an der Wien and was born on 4 November 1940. March 1946 promoted to Wiener Kammersänger. Alongside singers such as Maria Cebotari, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Wilma Lipp, Irmgard Seefried, Sena Jurinac, Erich Kunz and Paul Schöffler, Dermota belonged to the famous Viennese Mozart ensemble of the 1950s.

It was therefore almost a matter of course that Dermota would also appear in the reopening premiere of the rebuilt State Opera on May 5th. November 1955 - as Florestan in Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio. On 26. October 1977 Dermota celebrated his fortieth stage anniversary at the State Opera in the title role of Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina.

For his seventieth birthday, the Kammersänger, who has long since become a living legend, sang Tamino again at the invitation of the State Opera - with an almost unchanged fresh voice.

Dermota's second artistic home was the Salzburg Festival, where he appeared almost continuously from 1937 (Balthasar Zorn in Die Meistersinger under Arturo Toscanini) to the end of the 1950s, especially in his great Mozart roles.

He has also given acclaimed guest performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Paris Opera, the Opera House in Rome, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and has toured Australia, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

Since 1966 Dermota held a singing professorship at the Vienna Music Academy.

He died in his adopted home of Vienna a few days after his 79th birthday. Birthday. His honorary grave is in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 58, number 371). In 1992, Dermotagasse in Vienna-Hietzing was named after him.

Repertoire: In the post-war period and up until the early 1970s, Dermota was one of the internationally most sought-after Mozart and Bach interpreters of his generation, best known as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Ferrando (Così fan tutte), but later also sang more dramatic roles such as Florestan and the more lyrical roles of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner (David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) and Giuseppe Verdi, plus, especially in earlier years, Giacomo Puccini and Jules Massenet.

One of his most acclaimed interpretations was that of Johannes from Franz Schmidt's massive oratorio The Book with Seven Seals (with Walter Berry on bass, recording conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos). His design of the title role in Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina, his Evangelimann (Wilhelm Kienzl) and his Lenski in Peter Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin were also important. Overall, his repertoire included more than 80 roles.

He also set standards as an interpreter of songs, especially by Schubert and Schumann, always being supported by his wife Hilda (b. Berger von Weyerwald, * 17. June 1912; † 5 March 2013), was accompanied on the piano. His interpretation of Winterreise, which is also available on CD, is a textbook example of expression, style and vocal culture.

As a singer, Dermota was considered one of the greatest in his field throughout his life, and many of his younger colleagues - Fritz Wunderlich, Nicolai Gedda, Ernst Haefliger, Peter Schreier - were measured against him. Dermota's technical mastery was impressive, and his voice possessed both mellowness and expressiveness into old age - as late as 1981 he sang in Carlos Kleiber's recording of Tristan und Isolde den Hirten.

awards

1955: Mozart medal by the Mozart community in Vienna[1]

1959: Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class

1977: Grand Decoration of Honor in Silver for services to the Republic of Austria.