Greatest Opera Singers

Greatest Opera Singers

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Fritz Wolff (Tenor) (October 28, 1894 Munich, Germania - January 18, 1957 Munich, Germania)




First he became an officer and took part in the First World War. After the war, he studied under Heinrich König in Wurzburg. In 1925 he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Loge in ‘’The Rhine Gold’’. Till 1942 he worked at the Berlin Staatsoper. Then he was drawn to the war service and got in Russian captivity. In 1950 he received a professorship in the Munich college for music and theatre.

Chronology of some appearances

1925-1941 Bayreuth Festival
1925 Hagen Stadttheater
1926-1928 Chemnitz Stadttheater
1928 Berlin Staatsoper
1929-1933 London Covent Garden
1932-1934 Zoppot Festival
1934-1935 Chicago Opera
1937-1938 London Covent Garden
1942 Berlin Staatsoper

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Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner): Am stillen Herd 66855 (B22452)
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