First he received his education as pianist as
well as as an actor at the Academy of music in Munich and began his stage
activity in 1893 at the Municipal Theater of Luzern as an actor. Then he appeared
in Meiningen, Nuremberg and at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich (1899-1900),
where he already began to appear as singer. Then he stuied singing in Munich and
made his debut as singer at the Stadttheater of Lübeck (1902-1903). Then he sang at the Hoftheater of Altenburg in Thuringia, in the 1907-1908
season at the Stadttheater of Mülhausen (Elsaß), in the 1908-1911 seasons at
the Stadttheater of Bremen. He counted as one of the most significant tenors of
character parts in Germany. His best part was Mime in Nibelungenring, which he sang
more than 300 times at important international guest performances. He appeared
as Mime in the 1907-1914 seasons at the Covent Garden in London. In 1922 he
created the part of Mime during the first entire performance of the Ring Cycle at
the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He guested at the Hofopern in
Dresden (1905) and Berlin (1909, as Mime), in Amsterdam (1908 as Steuermann in ‘’Fliegenden
Holländer’’), at the Hoftheatern of Mannheim (1909) and Wiesbaden (1910), at
the Teatro Real in Madrid and in 1922 at Rio de Janeiro. In 1913 he sang at the
Covent Garden in the English première of the opera ‘’Colonel Chabert’’ of
Waltershausen. The same year he formed in the première there of Richard Strauss’s
‘’Der Rosenkavalier’’ as Valzacchi. During the 1920’s he took part in an USA
tour with appearances in Chicago and Philadelphia and was often to be heard at
the Staatsoper in Munich. He also appeared as an operetta singer. He was active
in Munich also in an educational area. Since 1933 he had to give up as a Jew in
Germany his career.
Chronology of some appearances
1899-1900 Munich Gärtnerplatztheater
1902-1903 Lübeck Stadttheater
1907-1908 Mülhausen Stadttheater
1907-1914 London Covent Garden
1908-1911 Bremen Stadttheater
1912 Buenos Aires Teatro Colón
RECORDINGS FOR SALE
Parlophon, Berlin 1911-05?
Undine (Lortzing): Da lieg', du altes Mondgewehr P689
Nozze di Figaro (Mozart): In den Jahren P690
Rheingold (Wagner): Immer ist Undank Loges Lohn! P691
Siegfried (Wagner): Nun tobst du wieder wie toll P694
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