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Miklos Bencze (19 June 1911-24 January 1992) was a Hungarian-American bass singer. He was born in Hungary and studied with tenor Manfredo Polverosi, and had his debut as Ferrando in Il Trovatore at the Hungarian State Opera in 1946. He also performed with the Budapest Municpal Opera Theatre and with opera companies in Vienna and Innsbruck. He married Budapest native Ilona Anna Szabari.

After Soviet troops marched into Budapest to end the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Bencze and his wife left Hungary and emigrated to the United States in 1957. There he received a Rockefeller Foundation grant and performed at Carnegie Hall in New York. While continuing his operatic career in major opera houses, with roles such as Sparafucile, Leporello, Don Basilio and Mephisto, he took a position as voice teacher and artist in residence at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.^[1] In 1964 he accepted a similar position at the University of Mississippi. Among his pupils he numbered many prominent singers and teachers. Finally, in 1977, he retired from the stage and taught voice at Wallace Community College in Dothan, Alabama.^[2]

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Category:1911 births Category:Hungarian opera singers Category:Operatic basses