Career
After extensive musical education, Karel Berman started his career as a bass singer of opera in Opava. In March, 1943, Berman was deported to Theresienstadt, where he took part in cultural life as a singer, composer and director On 11 July 1944, for example, he and Rafael Schächter produced the "Four songs to words of Chinese poetry" by Pavel Haas for the first time.
Later he was also imprisoned in Kaufering and Auschwitz.
In 1953, he joined the Prague National Theatre opera. Berman is also remembered as an opera director, having directed more than 70 operas.
He also has taught at the Prague Conservatory from 1961–1971, and from 1964 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.