Oszkár Kálmán was a Hungarian bass, remembered as the first Bluebeard

Bluebeard's Castle

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. He was born in Kisszentpéter

Sânpetru Mare

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 (in present day Romania

Romania

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) and in 1913 made his debut as Sarastro

The Magic Flute

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 at the Royal Opera House

Hungarian State Opera House

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 in Budapest,
where created the title role of Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók

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's opera A kékszakállú herceg vára

Bluebeard's Castle

Duke Bluebeard's Castle is a one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The libretto was written by Béla Balázs, a poet and friend of the composer. It is in Hungarian, based on the French fairy tale "Bluebeard" by Charles Perrault...

in 1918. He was among the first singers of Zoltán Kodály

Zoltán Kodály

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's opus 9 songs at the Budapest conservatory.

By the 1920s he was resident at the Berlin Staatsoper

Berlin State Opera

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,

and in 1929 he took part in the premiere of Brecht's

Bertolt Brecht

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 Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis

The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent

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with music by Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith

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. In 1941 he was singing Osmin at the Goldmark Theatre in Budapest
.

Kálmán died in Budapest in 1971 .