Adolf Dallapozza

Adolf Dallapozza (born 14 March 1940 in Bolzano) is an Austrian tenor in opera, operetta and musical theatre He worked for more than 40 years at the Vienna Volksoper.

At the same time, he studied singing - among his teachers was the Italian-born soprano Ida Valjalo - and sang in the chorus of the Vienna Volksoper.

In the German premiere of Bernstein's West Side Story in 1968, directed by Marcel Prawy, Dallapozza sang the role of Tony opposite Julia Migenes.

He was well known for his secure possession of the high c. Dalapozza sang almost all the tenor roles in the operettas of Karl Millöcker, Johann Strauss, Franz Lehár und Emmerich Kálmán.

In opera, he sang Rodolfo in a 1984 production of La bohème, directed by Harry Kupfer; in 1988 Wilhelm Meister in Thomas's Mignon; in 1990 the role of Lenski in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.