László Polgár obituary

Hungarian bass best known for Duke BluebeardThe Hungarian bass László Polgár, notable for his outstanding interpretation of the saturnine antihero in Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, has died unexpectedly at the age of 63. From the time of his international breakthrough in the early 1980s, he was renowned for the major bass roles he took at leading opera houses round the world, but it was for his assumption of Duke Bluebeard that he will be chiefly remembered. The recording he made wi...

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