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(1) Emilie Herzog (-Welti)
(Ermatingen: 1859 - 1923) as Nedda in Pagliacci. German soprano,
taught by Karl Gloggner and Adolf Schimon. Created Louise Mauclair in
Heirat Wider Willen (Humperdinck) and Drolla in Die Feen
(Wagner).
(2) German lyric tenor
Heinrich Hensel: (Neustadt:
29 Oct 1874 - Hamburg:
23 Feb 1935). He studied in Vienna and
Frankfurt and made his début (1897) at Freiburg, remaining a member of the
ensemble there until 1900. After engagements at Frankfurt, where he created
the Prince in Humperdinck’s Dornröschen (1902), and Wiesbaden, he
became the leading Heldentenor at the Hamburg Opera (1912–29). He was chosen
by Siegfried Wagner to create the tenor lead in Banadietrich (1910,
Karlsruhe) and to sing Parsifal at Bayreuth, where he also sang Loge
(1911–12). He also appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, in Chicago, and at
Covent Garden (1911-1914), where he sang Parsifal in the first staged London
production (1914).
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