Person Open DS/UK/11305 Adler; Kurt Herbert (2 April 1905-9 February 1988); Austrian-American conductor and opera house director Adler Kurt Herbert 2 April 1905-9 February 1988 Austrian-American conductor and opera house director Male (cisgender) Vienna, Austria (born)

United States (residence)

American Austrian Musician | Conductor White No known disability Jewish Son of Ida Bauer (Jewish and one of the first patients of Sigmund Freud) Spouse of Dianthe Warfel Father of Ronald Huntington Adler (artistic director of Bavarian State Opera and Berlin State Opera) and Sabrina Sif Heterosexual Kurt Herbert Adler was an Austrian-born American conductor and opera house director. He became the assistant to Arturo Toscanini at the Salzburg Festival in 1936 and he worked in Italy. Following the Nazi occupation of Austria in 1938, as a Jew he was forced to leave and went to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as assistant chorus director where he worked for five years. Gaetano Merola, then General Director of the San Francisco Opera invited him to the San Francisco Opera in 1943 as chorus director. By 1953, he became the General Director. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Herbert_Adler (2022) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 1/21/2014 RAHAKIRKBRIDE 6/3/2025 696fd6ba-d2dd-42f7-9801-0eb895da6918