Karl Terkal

Karl Terkal, own Trkal ( born October 7, 1919 in Vienna, † August 12, 1996 ) was an Austrian opera singers and chamber singers.

Life

He learned the art and furniture carpentry and worked until 1939 or after military service until 1949 in his profession. He took singing lessons and his first role in 1950 was Don Ottavio at the Graz city theater. Then he came in 1952 at the Vienna State Opera, where he remained for over 20 years. There he sang 221 times the host in Der Rosenkavalier.

He also sang at the Salzburg Festival and at the Bregenz Festival and as an opera singer, he had great success at the Vienna Volksoper. His best performances he scored with the radiant tenor voice in the lyric with parts in operas by Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss.

His honorary dedicated tomb is located on the Baumgartner cemetery in Vienna (group E, paragraph 59 ).

Awards

Exhibitions

• 2009 and 2011: District Museum Waehring memorial exhibition Karl Terkal