Josef Witt

Kammersänger Josef Witt was a tenor who was a regular performer at the Vienna State Opera before World War II. His name is sometimes spelled Joseph Witt. In 1923, Witt created the role of Li in Hans Gál's opera, Die heilige Ente, in Düsseldorf. He performed the role of Palestrina in the production of Pfitzner’s opera Palestrina at the State Opera in 1937. He conducted opera classes at the Akadamie fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna until his death in 1994. Singers like Norman Bailey, Walter Berry, Mimi Coertse and Ernst Gutstein, who went on to have important opera careers in Austria and Germany, were among his students. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Witt) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)