Kammersänger Anton Dermota was a Slovene tenor.
He was born in a poor family in the Upper Carniolan village of Kropa in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He went to the Ljubljana Conservatory with the intention of studying composition and organ, but in 1934 he received a scholarship which sent him to Vienna. There, he devoted himself exclusively to vocal study with Marie Radó.
Dermota made his debut at the opera in Cluj in 1934, and was promptly invited by Bruno Walter to perform at the...
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