opera
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tic
tenor
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and
actor
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who enjoyed success in the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography
Frank Forest was born Frank Hayek (meaning forest in Czech) in St. Paul, Minnesota on October 17, 1896. He began the study of music at 7 years and voice training with the St. Paul, Minnesota choir as a soloist He studied
pianoforte
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and singing and at twelve was singing as a soloist in a church choir. At seventeen he taught
piano
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and voice. Later he went to
New York City
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and became a salesman, eventually becoming a sales manager. He studied singing in
Italy
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and made his operatic debut in 1928, becoming famous in operatic circles.
Forest studied
agricultural engineering
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at the
University of Minnesota
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, and later helped found the profitable pharmaceutical firm White Laboratories of
Kenilworth, New Jersey
Kenilworth is a borough in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 7,914,Americansoprano and actress
Grace Moore
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in 1937. In 1955 he started pouring his energies and money into the creation of the Empire State Festival, a
New York City
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summer opera festival. Frank Forest died on December 23, 1976, in
Santa Monica, California
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For Love of You
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(1933) as 'Franco Foresta'
*''
The Big Broadcast of 1937
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'' (1936) - Frank Rossman
*''Champagne Waltz'' (1937) - Karl Lieberlich
*''I'll Take Romance'' (1937) - Pinkerton (from '' Madama Butterfly'')
*'' Take It Big'' (1944) - Harvey Phillips
Time
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