Family Card - Person Sheet
Notes for William Wymetal Jr. Jr.
{geni:occupation} Stage Director
{geni:about_me} William Wymetal, Jr. (1890-1970), b. Vienna, of Bohemian ancestry, attended the Vienna Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art and joined his father at the Vienna Opera. In the late1920s he came to America, where hefollowed in his father=s footsteps as a stage director, including working at the Met, where between 1930 and 1935 he premiered 19 operas. He also served as director of the Philadelphia Lyric Opera, director of the Curtis Institute of Music (1927), Mexico City Opera, City Center Opera in New York, San Francisco Opera Company, Chicago Light Opera, Houston Opera and New Orleans Opera and finally as the director of the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera from 1947-68. Furthermore, he had a career in the film industry, and worked for MGM in the 1940s on some of the Janette McDonald-Nelson Eddy musicals (May Time, Rose Marie), and also San Francisco with Clark Gable, I’ll take Romance with Grace Moore and The Phantom of the Opera with Claude Rains. Shortly before his death he was awarded the Grand Cross of Austria, the highest award a civilian can receive. He died of a heart attack in Pennsylvania, on November 7, 1970,at the age of 80.
* Updated from [http://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-1000...98df8b77e3d5d9a67389 U.S. Social Security Death Index (SSDI)] by [http://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 SmartCopy]: ''May 2 2015, 19:13:22 UTC''
{geni:about_me} William Wymetal, Jr. (1890-1970), b. Vienna, of Bohemian ancestry, attended the Vienna Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art and joined his father at the Vienna Opera. In the late1920s he came to America, where hefollowed in his father=s footsteps as a stage director, including working at the Met, where between 1930 and 1935 he premiered 19 operas. He also served as director of the Philadelphia Lyric Opera, director of the Curtis Institute of Music (1927), Mexico City Opera, City Center Opera in New York, San Francisco Opera Company, Chicago Light Opera, Houston Opera and New Orleans Opera and finally as the director of the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera from 1947-68. Furthermore, he had a career in the film industry, and worked for MGM in the 1940s on some of the Janette McDonald-Nelson Eddy musicals (May Time, Rose Marie), and also San Francisco with Clark Gable, I’ll take Romance with Grace Moore and The Phantom of the Opera with Claude Rains. Shortly before his death he was awarded the Grand Cross of Austria, the highest award a civilian can receive. He died of a heart attack in Pennsylvania, on November 7, 1970,at the age of 80.
* Updated from [http://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-1000...98df8b77e3d5d9a67389 U.S. Social Security Death Index (SSDI)] by [http://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 SmartCopy]: ''May 2 2015, 19:13:22 UTC''