Imrich Gál
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Imrich Gál Slovak opera singer (baritone) and opera pedagogue | |
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| Born | July 6, 1910 Hlohovec |
| Died | February 9, 1977 (aged 66) Bratislava |
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Imrich Gál (* July 6, 1910 in Hlohovec - † February 9, 1977 in Bratislava) was a Slovak opera singer (baritone) a pedagóg.
Imrich Gál sang a lyric baritone. He performed over 70 roles at SND and National Theatre in Košice between 1938 and 1964. In addition, he sang folk and operetta songs that were recorded on the then Czechoslovak Radio. Many recordings were destroyed during the Danube flood in 1965.
In his youth, Imrich Gál was a fairly successful swimmer and water polo player. He played water polo for ten years and trained swimmers.
He completed his primary education in schools in Hlohovec in the years 1916–1926. Then he studied at the Business Academy in Bratislava, where he passed the final exam in 1932.
From 1934 to 1939, he worked as an accountant in the Ministry of Education and Enlightenment. In addition to his work, he attended the Music and Drama Academy in Bratislava, majoring in opera singing under Prof. Josef Egem. He graduated in 1937.
He made his first appearance at the Slovak National Theatre in 1938 as Old Singer in the first Slovak opera Detvan by V. Figuš Bystrý. At the suggestion by Janko Borodáč, he transferred to the newly established National Theatre in Košice in 1947. He returned to the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava in 1953. His last year as an opera soloist was the 1963/64 season.
He applied his experience as an external vocal lecturer at the State Conservatory in Bratislava in the years 1956–1965. He also frequented to Komárno, where he taught singing at the Hungarian Regional Theatre. Among his pupils were the baritone František Caban and the tenor Jozef Ábel. He also taught singing to future actors, including Michal Dočolomanský.
The period at the National Theatre in Košice was his most successful, when he portrayed characters in important operatic works. For example, from Giuseppe Verdiho it was Rigoletto in Rigoletto, Renato in Un ballo in maschera, Georges Germont in La traviata, Amonasro in Aida. From Giacomo Puccini it was Barón Scarpia in Tosca and Sharples in Madama Butterly. From W. A. Mozart Papageno in The Magic Flute and Gróf Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro. From P. I. Tchaikovsky it was Eugene Onegin in Eugene Onegin, or Ivan Karas in A Zaporozhian Cossack beyond the Danube by composer S. Hulaka-Artemovsky.[1]
Imrich Gál passed on February 9th, 1977. His funeral filled the entire hall of the Lamač crematorium. Mikuláš Huba, who was the drama director in the SND at the time, said final farewell on behalf of the SND.
Recognition
In 2020, the State Theatre Opera in Košice dedicated one performance to the memory of Imrich Gál during the 110th anniversary of his birth, in recognition of his artistic legacy both as a performer and a pedagogue.[2]
References
- ↑ Blaho, Vladimír (2020). "Zabúdaný Imrich Gál?". Opera Slovakia (in slovenčina). Retrieved 2025-08-05.
- ↑ "Opera Will Dedicate One of the Performances to Imrich Gál". National Theatre Košice (sdke.sk). 2020. Retrieved 2025-08-05.
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