He was the son of a
Spaniard and an English woman. He came to Germany to study medicine, where his
voice was discovered. He made his debut in 1910 at the Stadttheater (Opera
House) in Hamburg, where he stayed until 1912. In the 1912-1914 seasons he sang
at the City Theater in Lübeck and since then at the Court Theater in Wiesbaden.
He made guest appearances at the major German opera houses, including the
Berlin Court Opera in 1911 (as Wolfram in ‘’Tannhäuser’’), the opera houses in
Frankfurt am Main and Cologne (1914). In 1914 he married the soprano Tilly de
Garmo-Jonas. In the 1917-18 season he was committed to the Metropolitan Opera
in New York, but the USA's entry into World War I prevented his appearance in
New York. In 1919 he was engaged again by the Metropolitan Opera, but died a
few days before the crossing.
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