Pollini, Bernhard (real name, Baruch Pohl)
Pollini, Bernhard (real name, Baruch Pohl)
Pollini, Bernhard (real name, Baruch Pohl) , German tenor, later baritone, and opera impresario; b. Cologne, Dec. 16, 1838; d. Hamburg, Nov. 27, 1897. He made his debut as Arturo in I Puritani in Cologne in 1857, and later sang baritone roles in an Italian opera troupe, of which he subsequently became manager and artistic director. He then undertook the management of the Italian opera at St. Petersburg and Moscow. In 1874 he became director of the Hamburg City Theater; in 1876 he also became manager of the Aitona Theater and in 1894 of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg.
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