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Despite concerns that his attractive but small baritone cannot withstand the rigors of Wagner’s The Traveling Dutchman, Wotan or Hans Sachs, Thomas Stewart enjoyed an extended career in these leading jobs, creating in adherence to a company legato and sharp enunciation what he lacked in pure vocal weight. Although he …

Created in 1926, Theo Adam was among the leading bass-baritones from the post-World Battle II period, particularly popular for his Wagnerian tasks. He became a member of the young boys’ choir from the Dresden Kreuzchor in 1937, a normal starting place for singers of this city. He began monitoring music …

Although given birth to in Berlin, conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler spent his child years in Munich, where his dad was a professor. After his skills were recognized young, he was taken off school and informed privately. Furtwängler’s educators included the composer Joseph Rheinberger as well as the conductor Felix Mottl. By …

Born in the us to Swedish-American parents, mezzo-soprano Blanche Thebom was among the choose variety of American performers who all grew into main careers on the Metropolitan Opera beneath the administration of Edward Johnson. The appealing young singer discovered opportunities on the country’s leading opera home due in huge measure …

In keeping with a great many other heroic tenors, Ram memoryón Vinay began his career like a baritone. After 2 decades as a respected tenor, he stepped back to the baritone register and continuing to sing for quite some time. Still, it had been being a tenore robusto that Vinay …

Ernst Haefliger was among the better known and even more versatile tenors of his day time. He was amazing both around the operatic stage so that as a recitalist, and in each one of these realms his repertory was wide, from Baroque period (J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Enthusiasm and St. …

When Martha Mödl died at age 89, she had still not really retired. The mezzo soprano switched dramatic soprano switched mezzo once again was a stage creature of uncommon magnetism. After a past due begin in music, she sang primary functions in the mezzo repertory during the majority of her …

With a robust bass-baritone of granite-like density and sharply honed dramatic instincts, Gustav Neidlinger was the foremost Alberich of his time. His realization of Wagner’s misshapen creature acquired both fearsome power for the curse in Das Rheingold as well as the pathos that glinted through the crusty outdoor to create …

Josef Greindl, having a tone of voice mellower and less trimming than those of Gottlob Frick or Kurt Böhme, non-etheless became a dominating existence in the heaviest German bass functions through the 1950s and 1960s. A broad vibrato bothered some listeners who have been delicate to such issues, but Greindl …

Elisabeth Grümmer was among the favorite German sopranos of the center two decades from the twentieth century. She was created Elisabeth Schilz in Alsace-Lorraine. When the French regained the place in 1918, her family members transferred to Meiningen. She examined drama on the university, and started an effective career being …