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nearly identical to their earlier brothers, postcards (11) and (13) were
produced in 1911 by a different publisher. These cards were published by
Emil Schwalb, Berlin-Charlottenburg. The earlier postcards were published by the
festival house studio, A. Pieperhoff. |
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(1)
A Cosima Wagner protégée was Austrian
soprano Luise Reuss-Belce
(1862-1945), seen here as Fricka riding a chariot in the Ring cycle. She made her
debut (1881) at Karlsruhe. Her Bayreuth debut was in the world premiere of
Parsifal (1882) as a Flowermaiden. She was a principal singer in
Bayreuth until 1912. She eventually became the dramatic coach at Bayreuth.
(2) Alfons Schutzendorf-Bellwidt (Vught:
25 May 1882 - Weimar: 1946): German bass-baritone from a fine family of
German singers. Studied in Cologne with Walter. Debut Dusseldorf. Bayreuth
1908-1912. Also sang at Covent Garden (1910) as Wotan and Gunther.
(3) German tenor Fritz Vogelstrom
(1882-1963) as Parsifal in 1909. He made his debut (1903) in Mannheim as
Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) where he remained until 1912. From 1912
through 1929 (the year he retired) he was a member of the Dresden Hofoper.
He sang Parsifal, Lohengrin, and Frohe (Das Rheingold) at the 1909
Bayreuth Festival. He was especially admired by Cosima Wagner.
(4) Fritz Vogelstrom
as Frohe (Das Rheingold) at the 1909 Bayreuth Festival.
(5)
Norwegian
soprano Ellen Gulbranson
(1863-1946). Originally Ellen Norgren. She made her stage debut (1889)
at the Royal Opera in Stockholm as Aida. Although she received her
vocal training elsewhere (notably with the Marchesi family), she was
enrolled in Cosima Wagner's training school in 1892 and made her first
Bayreuth Festival appearance in 1896 as Brünnhilde (seen here with "Grane"), which
was so sensational that it drove her alternate, the esteemed Lilli
Lehmann, from Bayreuth.
(6) German bass Lorenz
Corvinus (Frankfurt: 20 Jul 1870 - Vienna: 18 Jan 1952) as Fasolt. In
1894 he was singing in the choir at the Weimar Hofttheater. After 1900 he
was singing opera in Berlin, Elberfeld, Strassburg, and Vienna. He sang at
the Bayreuth Festivals from 1906-09. Corvinus also sang in Amsterdam,
London, Mannheim, Cologne, and the Hofoper in Berlin.
(7) Dr. Carl Muck:
German conductor (22 Oct 1859:
Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany - 3 Mar 1940:
Stuttgart, Germany). He
made his debut (1880) in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra.
(8) Alfons Schutzendorf-Bellwidt (Vught:
25 May 1882 - Weimar: 1946): German bass-baritone from a fine family of
German singers. Studied in Cologne with Walter. Debut Dusseldorf. Bayreuth
1908-1912. Also sang at Covent Garden (1910) as Wotan and Gunther.
Seen here as Klingsor.
(9) German conductor,
Michael Balling (28 Aug 1866:
Würzburg-Heidingsfeld - 1 Sep 1925: Darmstadt).
He trained as a violist and played in the opera orchestras of Mainz
and Schwerin. In 1895 he became the musical director of Sir Frank Benson's
Shakespearean company in England. He returned to Germany and became a
violinist with the Bayreuth Festival orchestra. He eventually moved into the
position as an assistant to several of the Festivals, and conducted there
regularly between 1904-14 and 1924-25. His final post was as musical
director in Darmstadt (1919–25). In 1908 he married the widow of Hermann
Levi.
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(10) Hertha Dehmlow as Erda.
In her later years she was a vocal teacher in Berlin.
(11) Carl Braun. German
bass (Meisenheim, Germany: 2 Jun 1886 - Hamburg: 24 Apr 1960). A pupil of the
Berlin Imperial Opera. Sang with the Wiesbaden Royal Opera (1906-11), Vienna
Imperial Opera (1911-12), Berlin City Opera (1912-14). Sang for many years at
the Bayreuth Festivals (1906-31). Metropolitan Opera (1912-17), Berlin
State Opera (1920-27). Seen here as Pogner
(Meistersinger), circa 1911.
(12) Carl Braun.
(13) German baritone Hermann Weil
(1876-1949). He initially trained under conductor Felix Mottl with aspirations
to become a chorus-master. However, the discovery of his voice altered his
goals. He spent the majority of his career in Stuttgart. He appeared in
Bayreuth in 1911, 1912, 1924, and 1925 in the roles of Günther (Götterdämmerung),
Amfortas (Parsifal), and as Hans Sachs (seen here) in Die
Meistersinger. He sang these three roles as well as Friedrich and Herald
(Lohengrin), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Wanderer (Siegfried),
Wotan (Die Walküre and Das Rheingold), and Kurwenal (Tristan
und Isolde) during his six seasons at the Metropolitan Opera (1911-1917).
(14) German soprano Martha
Leffler-Burckard (1865-1954) as Kundry in Parsifal. After studies
in Dresden and Paris she made her debut (1888) in Strasbourg. She appeared in
Breslau, Cologne, Bremen, Weimar, Wiesbaden, and Covent Garden. She appeared
regularly at Bayreuth from 1906 through 1909 as Kundry, Sieglinde (Die
Walküre), and Ortrud (Lohengrin). Postmarked from Bayreuth on 13
Aug 1909. At the Metropolitan Opera (1908) she was seen as Leonore
(Fidelio), and the Götterdämmerung and Die Walküre Brünnhildes. Circa 1909.
(15) American contralto
Adrienne von Kraus-Osborne [nee Adrienne Eisbein] (2 Dec 1873: Buffalo, NY
- 15 Jun 1951: Zell-an-der-Ziller, Austria) as Waltraute. She studied in
Germany with Auguste Gotze (Leipzig) and Felix von Kraus, who became her
husband in 1899. Her debut (1893) was at the Leipzig Opera. She sang there
until 1908 and them became a member of the Royal Opera in Munich. She appeared
at the Bayreuth Festivals from 1902-1909.
(16) Lilly Hafgren-Waag
as Elsa.
(17) Alois Burgstaller
as Siegfried.
(18) Felix von Kraus
(Vienna: 3 Oct 1870 - Munich: 31 Oct 1937) as Hagen. Married to American
contralto Adrienne von Kraus-Osborne. Felix von Kraus studied with Anton
Bruckner. The couple lived in Munich (1908-1935) where they both were vocal
teachers. Felix was an early interpreter of the works of Brahms.
(19) Willy Birkenfeld,
Richard Hedler,
Friedrich Galvagni, and Richard van Helvoirt Pel (Baritone: Haarlem:
28 Aug 1873 - Amsterdam: 6 Aug 1950) in Lohengrin.
(20)
Iowa-born bass-baritone
Clarence Whitehill
(1871-1932) as Wotan. He made his debut (1898)
in Brussels in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. After several appearances
at the Opéra-Comique he traveled to the Cologne Opera (1903-08) and other
German houses. He sang in Bayreuth in 1904 with the blessings of Cosima
Wagner. He sang quite often at the Chicago Opera and at Covent Garden, but
he made the Metropolitan Opera his home, singing there for nineteen seasons
beginning with an appearance as Wolfram in Tannhäuser (15 Nov 1909).
Henry Krehbiel of the New York Tribune wrote that Whitehill had "no
superior in the field of Wagnerian music drama," calling his Hans Sachs a
"warm, human, and poetic creation."
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