Louis von Bignio
also Lajos Bignio
Birthplace: Pest, Austrian Empire
Louis von Bignio was a baritone who anchored the Vienna Kärntnertortheater and its successor, the Vienna Court Opera, for twenty years. Trained in Pest under Peter Stoll and in Vienna under Gaetano Rossi and Giovanni Gentiluomo, he made his stage debut as a hunter in Konradin Kreutzer's Das Nachtlager in Granada before joining the Kärntnertortheater in 1863, where he created Wolfram von Eschenbach in the house's 1875 Tannhäuser. His repertoire also included Rigoletto, Count Luna in Il trovatore and the title role of Hérold's Zampa. The house made him a Kammersänger and, on his 1883 departure, an honorary member.
Creations
- Wolfram von Eschenbach — Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg (Vienna, 1875)
Written from
- Wikipedia (2026) Louis von Bignio. (Accessed: 29 August 2026). The German article.
- Wikipedia (2026) Lajos Bignio. (Accessed: August 2026). The Esperanto article.
- Wien Geschichte Wiki (n.d.) Louis von Bignio. (Accessed: August 2026).
- Österreichisches Musiklexikon Online (n.d.) Bignio, Louis von. (Accessed: August 2026). Gives 27 July 1837 and explicitly disputes 1839; against three other sources (this record's other three citations) all giving 1839. Also gives his Vienna tenure as ending 1886, with a transfer to the new Budapest National Opera (1886–91), against 1883 elsewhere; not resolved, hence the 1883 departure in the note is now called that rather than a retirement.