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(1) Carl Braun as
Fafner. 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).
(2)
Hermine Kittel
as Erda (Vienna, 2 Dec 1879 -
Vienna, 7 Aprl 1948).
Austrian contralto. She began her career as
an actress, then studied singing with Amalie Materna in Vienna. At the
Vienna Hofoper she sang at first under Mahler’s direction, and later in the
première of the revised version of Ariadne auf Naxos. At Bayreuth
(1902, 1908) she sang Erda and various minor roles, and at the early
Salzburg Festivals she was often heard as Marcellina in Figaro.
(3) Karl Burrian: Tenor
(Rousinov, Rumania: 1870 - Senomaty, near Prague: 1924): He made his debut (1891) at Brünn as Manrico in Il
Trovatore. He was Herod at Dresden in the world premiere of
Salome (9 Dec 1905). His voice was ruined when he accidentally drank a
glass of disinfectant which he mistook for a prepared drink.
Seen here as Parsifal
(with Blumenmadchen), a role he sang at the 1908 Bayreuth Festival.
(4) Hugo Rudel.
Choirmaster, Bayreuth, Berlin State Opera, Berlin Domchores.
(5) 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.
(6) German soprano Martha
Leffler-Burckard (1865-1954) as Ortrud. 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.
(7) Nicola Geiss-Winkel
(Bad Ems: 27 Feb 1872 - Wiesbaden: 11 August 1932) as Heerufer (Lohengrin).
He studied at the Universities of Marburg, Munich, Budapest, Vienna,
Amsterdam, and Strassburg. He performed in Köln, Aachen, Mainz, Wiesbaden,
among others. He first performed at Bayreuth in 1908, but his appearance
there as Heerufer dates from 1912.
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