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Frederick Dalberg

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Frederick Dalberg
Born(1907-01-07)7 January 1907
Died9 May 1988(1988-05-09) (aged 81)
South Africa
OccupationOpera singer

Frederick Dalberg (7 January 1907 – 9 May 1988) was an English born South African opera bass.

Life and career

He was born Frederick Dalrymple on 7 January 1907 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. He joined the company of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London in 1951. There he created roles in two Benjamin Britten operas, John Claggart in Billy Budd (1951), and Sir Walter Raleigh in Gloriana (1953). He was in the debut cast of William Walton's Troilus and Cressida in 1954. Dalberg was in the premiere cast of Michael Tippett's opera The Midsummer Marriage in 1955.[1]

He died in South Africa in May 1988.

Personal life

He married German soprano Ellen Winter. Their daughter, Evelyn Dalberg (born 1939), is also an opera singer in South Africa.[2]

  • Laura Williams Macy. "The Grove Book of Opera Singers". Oxford University Press. p. 106. Dalberg [Dalrymple], Frederick

References

  1. ^ Forbes, Elizabeth (2008). "Dahberg [Dalrymple], Frederick" in L. Macy (ed.) The Grove Book of Opera Singers, p. 106. Oxford University Press
  2. ^ South African History Online. 23 May 1939, Evelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Germany. Retrieved 27 June 2013