The name Enrico Caruso is synonymous with the art of opera: telling an opera singer that he “sounds like Caruso” is probably the greatest compliment …
Peter Anders: The Brilliant Tenor
At a time when all the top-class tenors had left Germany, he was one of the few remaining singers in the thirties and forties who …
Max Lichtegg: The Universal Tenor (3.)
Continued from part two In 1949 Max Lichtegg celebrated a kind of “return to Vienna” – to the city where his musical career had begun. …
Max Lichtegg: The Ambassador of Music (2.)
Continued from part one One might think that Max Lichtegg had also been a celebrated recording star by now: However, that was not the case. …
Max Lichtegg: The Charmingboy (1.)
Part one Looking back on her career, Maria Callas once said that the art of opera was dead and must be rejuvenated. This radical statement …
Joseph Schmidt: A Radio Tenor Finds His Way to the Stage
Continued from part one At the end of 1935, a radio broadcast with Joseph Schmidt was broadcast to the United States: sitting in front of …
Joseph Schmidt: The Microphone Was His Concert Hall
Part one Early in his career, Joseph Schmidt sang roles that pushed other tenors to the limits of their vocal abilities at the height of …
Franco Corelli: He saw notes in his dreams
The name Franco Corelli is often mentioned in the same breath as Fritz Wunderlich: Both are considered the most important tenors of the 20th century …
Fritz Wunderlich: The Century Tenor (2.)
The Freiburg Academy of Music, where Fritz studied from 1950 on, had only been founded shortly after the end of the war. At first Fritz was not sure whether he could make a living with singing. In the first three semesters, Wunderlich concentrated primarily on studying the horn.
Fritz Wunderlich: The Century Tenor (1.)
On the morning of September 26, 1930, the following sign decorated the door of the saloon Emrich’s Braustübl inn in the Palatine town of Kusel: “Fritzchen has arrived today. Saloon closed!”. Just who was it who had “arrived”? Perhaps more importantly, who were the parents of „Fritzchen“, the new-born baby?