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Turandot. He subsequently joined a Czech opera touring company and finally the Vienna Volksoper in 1930. His roles included Tonio,
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appearance was repellent, Fuchs would say of the audition years later, "I knew this boy had something, for he was so tenacious in his desire to sing." As a result, in 1925, Fuchs offered Igor free lessons with Robert
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who taught religion in Grodek and in the neighboring provinces. Igor was not close to his father; it was his beloved mother, Yente Moritz
Greenberg, who passed on her love of music to her son.
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Talmudist school where Igor displayed an amazing aptitude for the orthodox Jewish liturgy, which he committed to memory. He mastered
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