He was a son of the
prince Emil zu
Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. His mother was the baroness Camilla von Kleydorff
(Camilla Stefánska). His real name was Franz Freiherr von
Kleydorff. Till 1900 he
was a Prussian officer in Merseburg, then he studied singing with Lilli Lehmann
and Alfredo Cairati in Berlin as well as under Victor Maurel in Paris. He began
his career under the name Franz Egenieff in the 1904-1906 seasons, as a member
of the Savage Opera Company, during North American tour. He made guest
appearances in Dresden (Hofoper),
Munich (Hofoper), Cologne, Leipzig and at the National Theater of Weinar (1926), also in
Bucharest and Sofia. After the First World War he took part in vast tour
through Japan, China, Korea and Balkans. He was married the niece of the
American multimillionaire Adolphus Busch. In 1927 he sang at the Bayreuth Festival
the part of Klingsor in ''Parsifal''. In the 1929-1931 seasons he travelled
around North America with the German Opera Company, which he put together Johanna
Gadski, and sang during this tour the parts of Klingsor, Gunther in ''Götterdämmerung''
and Kurwenal in ''Tristan und Isolde''.
Chronology of some
appearances
1904-1906 North
American tour
1907-1910 Berlin Komische Oper
1910-1911 Berlin Hofoper
1912-1913 Berlin Kurfürsten-Oper
1927 Bayreuth Festival
1929-1931 North
American tour
RECORDINGS FOR SALE
Odeon, Berlin 1909-10
Mignon (Thomas): Ihr Schwalben in den Lüften with Artôt de Padilla XX76050 xxB4706
Edison 4-min cylinders, Berlin 1910?
Tannhäuser (Wagner): O kehr' zurück BA 28154
Pathé, Berlin 1910/1911
Figaro's Hochzeit (Mozart): Duett with Minnie Nast 15780
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