ALOIS BURGSTALLER (TENOR) (HOLZKIRCHEN, 22 SEPTEMBER, 1871 - GMUND AM TEGERNSEE,
19 APRIL, 1945)
First, he specialized in watchmaking. His voice was
discovered by Hermann Levi and Cosima Wagner. He studied singing under Eduard
Bellwidt in Frankfurt am Main and further perfected his vocal technique at the
Bayreuth School with Julius Kniese. In 1894, he made his debut at the Bayreuth
Festival as Heinrich der Schreiber in Tannhäuser
and as a Gralsritter in Parsifal.
Later, he worked as a vocal pedagogue in Munich.
Chronology of some appearances
1894 Bayreuth Festival Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser)
1894 Nürnberg Stadttheater Siegfried (Siegfried)
1896-1902 Bayreuth Festival Parsifal Rheingold (Froh)
1896-1897 Bayreuth Festival Die Walküre (Siegmund)
1897 Berlin Hofoper
1897 Amsterdam Opernhaus
1899-1902 Bayreuth Festival Siegfried (Siegfried)
1899 Bayreuth Festival Parsifal (Parsifal)
1899 Amsterdam Opernhaus
1900 Zürich Siegfried (Siegfried)
1901 Bayreuth Festival Fliegenden Holländer (Erik)
1902 Bayreuth Festival Parsifal (Parsifal)
1903-1910 München Hofoper
1903-1909 New York Metropolitan Opera Die Walküre
(Siegmund)
1906 London Covent Garden Fliegenden Holländer (Erik)
1906 London Covent Garden Tristan und Isolde (Tristan)
1906 Paris Wagner concert
1907 Paris Wagner concert
1908 Bayreuth Festival Die Walküre (Siegmund)
1909 Bayreuth Festival Siegfried (Siegfried)
TRACKLIST
Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner): Huldreichster Tag
(Prize song excerpt) (Burgstaller 1904-01-17 or
Dippel 1904-03-06?) Mapleson cylinders, New York 1904?
Lohengrin (Wagner): Erzählung 85077 Columbia
cylinders, New York 1906?
Don Giovanni (Mozart): Ein Band der Freundschaft B25
Edison 2-min cylinders, New York 1906?
Freischütz (Weber): Durch die Wälder B31 Edison 2-min
cylinders, New York 1906?
Fliegende Holländer (Wagner): Willst jenes Tag’s B45
Edison 2-min cylinders, New York 1906?
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