Kurt Herbert Adler

1905 - 1958  (53 Jahre)

• Name	Kurt Herbert Adler
  Geboren	4 Feb 1905	Wien, Wien, Österreich
  Geschlecht	männlich
  Emigration	1938	Chicago, Illinois, United States (USA)
  	Flucht vor NS-Verfolgung
  Occupation/Beruf	Dirigent, Musiker
  Biography	Kurt Herbert Adler (2 April 1905 – 9 February 1988)[1] was an Austrian-born American conductor and opera house director. Adler was born in Vienna, Austria to a Jewish family. His work in the field of music led him to become the assistant to Arturo Toscanini at the Salzburg Festival in 1936 and he also worked in Italy. Following the Nazi occupation of Austria in 1938, as a Jew he was forced to leave and went to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as assistant chorus director where he worked for five years. Gaetano Merola, then General Director of the San Francisco Opera, heard of him and, over the telephone, invited him to the San Francisco Opera in 1943 as chorus director. In the following ten years, he took on more and more administrative details as Merola’s health and energy diminished. While Adler was not the Board’s natural choice to replace Merola at the time of his death in 1953, after three months of acting as Artistic Director and with the help of its president, Robert Watt Miller, Adler was confirmed as General Director. Adler’s aims in taking over the company were several. One was to expand the season and, by the 1969 SFO season, eleven operas were given five or six performances each on average while the season ran to late November. He was tireless in seeking out up-and-coming new singers, whether American or European, by attending performances in both major and minor opera houses. Thirdly, his interest in developing stronger connections to opera stage directors in an attempt to strengthen the dramatic and theatrical elements of the works, led to a long relationship with Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Other innovations included the Merola Opera Program named after the SFO founder, and “Opera in the Park” which, from 1971, has been an annual free concert in Golden Gate Park on the Sunday following opening night of the fall season. He was not always regarded as an easy person to work for, but his principal achievements in San Francisco were to greatly raise the standards of the opera company and "to attract a stunning galaxy of European stars, some at the beginning of their careers, to a small city at the other end of the world, often at significantly lower salaries than New York or Chicago would offer".[2] He retired in late December 1981 and continued to conduct and be involved with music until his death in Ross, California in 1988. His son Ronald H. Adler is an opera director and has been artistic director at the Bavarian State Opera (2001–2008) and the Berlin State Opera (2008–2011). Source: Wikipedia
  Gestorben	9 Feb 1958	San Francisco, California, United States (USA)
  Notizen	Quellen: Banca data del Museo Ebraico di Merano, Datenbank des Jüdischen Museums Meran, November 2017, http://database.meranoebraica.it/de/4615
  Personen-Kennung	I32805
  Zuletzt bearbeitet am	1 Sep 2018

  
  

  Vater	Ernst Adler,   geb. 12 Feb 1873, Budapest, Budapest, Ungarn ,   gest. 28 Dez 1932, Wien, Wien, Österreich  (Alter 59 Jahre)
  Mutter	Ida Bauer,   geb. 1 Nov 1882, Vienna, Wien, Österreich ,   gest. 1945, New York City, New York, United States (USA)  (Alter 62 Jahre)
  Familien-Kennung	F4733	Familienblatt

  
  

  Familie	Gertrude (Trude) Moellnitz
  Zuletzt bearbeitet am	1 Sep 2018
  Familien-Kennung	F5255	Familienblatt

  
  

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