Oskar Danon

Oskar (Šlomo) Danon (Sephardi Hebrew: אוסקר (שלמה) דנון, Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Оскар (Шломо) Данон; 7 February 1913 – 18 December 2009)[1] was a Bosnian Serb composer and conductor.

[2] Oskar Danon, as a Bosnian Jew of Sephardic lineage, was born on 1913 in Sarajevo, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern Bosnia and Herzegovina).

[4] With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London he recorded works by Smetana, Enescu, Dvořák, Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Saint-Saëns for Reader's Digest in 1962-63, and in 1963 Die Fledermaus in German and English for RCA in Vienna with Adele Leigh, Anneliese Rothenberger, Risë Stevens, Sándor Kónya, Eberhard Waechter and George London,[4] as well as recording for Supraphon in Czechoslovakia: Scheherazade, Orpheus, Pulcinella and the Franck symphony.

Danon's Vienna State Opera debut in 1964 was The Gambler, in a production from Belgrade, followed over the years by Don Quichotte (Massenet), The Miraculous Mandarin (Bartók), Tannhäuser with Gottlob Frick, Wolfgang Windgassen, Eberhard Waechter, Christa Ludwig and Gundula Janowitz, Carmen, La traviata, Aida, The Flying Dutchman, Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly and Otello.

For the Verdi Theatre in Trieste he conducted Boris Godunov, The Golden Cockerel and Countess Maritza.