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Adolph Nemeth

also Adolf Nemeth

A dancer, mime and singer at the Vienna Opera for nearly thirty years, from a ballet in 1912 to 1940. He created Brighella in the revised Ariadne auf Naxos on 4 October 1916 and sang it nineteen times, then Harlekin sixty-one times from 1919 to 1937. His character parts included Lillas Pastia in Carmen, Gaston in Die tote Stadt, the Hairdresser in Der Rosenkavalier and the Mute in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, beside ballet parts such as Coppélius and Pantalon. The Theatermuseum in Vienna holds his role portraits from 1924 to 1937.

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