Zoltán Kelemen (opera singer)

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Zoltán Kelemen (March 12, 1926–May 9, 1979) was a Hungarian baritone. He was born in Budapest and died in Zurich. He began studying music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music before leaving Hungary in order to study in Rome. When he left Rome in 1959 he established himself in Germany, first in Augsburg and later in Cologne.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Kelemen was a favorite singer of Herbert von Karajan, with whom he recorded Fidelio in the role of Don Pizzaro, Der Ring des Nibelungen as Alberich, Boris Godunov as Rangoni, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg as Fritz Kothner, The Merry Widow as Mirko Zeta, and others. Kelemen also recorded the role of Klingsor in Parsifal with Georg Solti (1971). At the Bayreuth Festival Kelemen succeeded Gustav Neidlinger in the role of Alberich, in which he debuted in 1962 and with which he became identified just as Neidlinger had been. He notably sang it several times under the direction of Pierre Boulez.

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NAME	Keleman, Zoltán
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Hungarian opera singer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest
DATE OF DEATH	May 9, 1979
PLACE OF DEATH	Zurich