Miklos Bencze

Background

He was born in Hungary and studied with tenor Manfredo Polverosi. He had his debut as Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Hungarian State Opera in 1946.

Career

He also performed with the Budapest Municipal Opera Theatre and with opera companies in Vienna and Innsbruck. There he received a Rockefeller Foundation grant and performed at Carnegie Hall in New New York In 1964 he accepted a similar position at the University of Mississippi.

Among his pupils, he numbered many prominent singers and teachers.

Finally, in 1977, he retired from the stage and taught voice at Wallace Community College in Dothan, Alabama.

Connections

teacher:

Leporello, Don Basilio and Mephisto