singer (lyric tenor)/(lirico spinto),(Heldentenor) and actor
Spouse
Marta Eggerth
(m. 1936)
Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura (1954)Grave of Kiepura at Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw
Jan Wiktor Kiepura (Polish: [kjɛˈpura]; May 16, 1902 – August 15, 1966) was a Polish opera singer (lyric tenor / lirico spinto, Heldentenor) and actor. He enjoyed a successful international career and performed at leading concert halls around the world including La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Opéra-Comique, La Fenice and Teatro Colón. He was the recipient of numerous national and international distinctions and honours including Poland's Order of Polonia Restituta,[1] France's Legion of Honour[2] and Sweden's Order of the Polar Star.[3]
^"M.P. 1935 nr 258 poz. 308". isap.sejm.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved May 11, 2024.
^Waldorff, Jerzy (1988). Jan Kiepura [Jan Kiepura] (in Polish). Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne. p. 22-23. ISBN 83-224-0317-8.
^"Gazeta Lwowska" (in Polish). Retrieved May 11, 2024.
Jan Wiktor Kiepura (Polish: [kjɛˈpura]; May 16, 1902 – August 15, 1966) was a Polish opera singer (lyric tenor / lirico spinto, Heldentenor) and actor...
Bellini (Rome 1935); Das Hofkonzert (1936); Zauber der Bohème, with JanKiepura (Vienna 1936, music Robert Stolz); as well as two films written especially...
EuroNight trains between Western and Eastern Europe, most notably the EN JanKiepura direct sleeping cars between Russia and Amsterdam, Basel and Munich via...
1937 Austrian musical film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring JanKiepura, Mártha Eggerth, and Paul Kemp. It follows the plot of Giacomo Puccini's...
77 Park Lane (1931) Blanc comme neige (1931) City of Song (1931) with JanKiepura Life Goes On (1932) The Night at the Hotel (1932) Monsieur Albert (1932)...
Hop 2014: JanKiepura Theatre Music Award for the best dancer in Poland 2016: Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture ‘Gloria Artis’ 2017: JanKiepura Theatre...
a 1934 German musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring JanKiepura, Mártha Eggerth and Paul Kemp. Separate English-language (My Heart is...
Henninger Oskar Höcker Attila Hörbiger Fritz Imhoff Paul Kemp Erich Kestin JanKiepura Paul Klinger Ernst Legal Hans Leibelt Wolfgang Liebeneiner Albert Lieven...
on the occasion of the German Gymnastics and Sports Festival. Singer JanKiepura also appeared on the same balcony after the war to sing for a crowd of...
introduced mezzo-soprano Gladys Swarthout and the Polish-born tenor JanKiepura, who had starred in several Korngold operas in Europe.: 9 In 1935 Warners...
Tadeusz Peiper, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Witold Gombrowicz, JanKiepura, Stefan Jaracz. In 1920, in Lesser Poland's town of Wadowice, Karol Wojtyla...
leaves Poland for a series of lectures at American universities June 29. JanKiepura, together with wife Marta Eggerth, sing to thousands of people on the...
and 1943–1944. The last of these starred Marta Eggerth and her husband JanKiepura, with sets by Howard Bay and choreography by George Balanchine. It ran...
a 1930 German musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring JanKiepura, Brigitte Helm and Walter Janssen. The film's sets were designed by the...
Karol Szymanowski, Feliks Nowowiejski, and Artur Rubinstein, singer JanKiepura. Theatre was immensely popular in the interbellum, with three main centres...
Place in the Sun August 3 - Lenny Bruce, 40, American satirist August 15 JanKiepura, 64, Polish tenor and actor, My Song for You Seena Owen, 71, American...
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