Albert Peters (singer)

Albert Peters (born around 1895 ) was a German opera singer with a tenor voice .

Life

Albert Peters had his first engagement in 1919/20 at the Vienna Citizens' Theater ; he was engaged in the 1920/21 season at the Vienna Volksoper , and in 1921/22 at the Brno Opera House . In 1925/26 he worked at the Leipzig Opera and in 1926/27 at the Theater von Barmen-Elberfeld . In 1927 he came to the Berlin State Opera . He became known through his simultaneous appearance at the Berlin Kroll Opera , whose musical direction Otto Klemperer had taken over. In the opening performance on November 19, 1927, he sang in the role of Jaquino in Fidelio . At the Kroll Opera, roles such as Juliano in Der Schwarze Domino von Auber, Kilian in Der Freischütz , the three comic roles in Hoffmann's Stories , Goro in Madama Butterfly , Bardolfo in Verdi's Falstaff , and Torquemada followed until it closed in 1931 in Ravel's L'heure espagnole , the Monostatos in Mozart's Magic Flute . In the last performance before the house was closed on July 3, 1931, he sang Don Curzio in Figaro's wedding .

Peters had a role in the world premiere of Hindemith's opera Neues vom Tage on June 8, 1929 . In 1931 he sang at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in the Berlin production of Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny . In the comedians' cabaret , he appeared in a program with operetta scenes.

After the seizure of power in 1933, he fled to Paris as a Jew. In 1935 he made a guest appearance with a troupe made up of German emigrants at the Echternach Festival in Echternach in Luxembourg. In 1936 he sang a few smaller roles from the Wagner repertoire at Covent Garden Opera London. In December 1938 he was involved in Alwin Kronacher's production of Horváth's Faith, Love Hope , and in August 1939 in Robert Blum's production of Ibsen's Ghosts . For 1939 appearances in the Opéra de Monte-Carlo as Mime in the Ring of the Nibelung and as Melot in Tristan und Isolde are recorded . Further information is not available.

literature

• Peters, Albert . In: Large song dictionary . 2000, pp. 18975f.
• Peters, Albert . In: Frithjof Trapp , Werner Mittenzwei , Henning Rischbieter , Hansjörg Schneider : Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945 / Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Part 2, Munich: Saur, 1999, p. 732
• Hans Curjel : Experiment Krolloper 1927–1931 . From the estate, published by Eigel Kruttge. Munich: Prestel, 1975. Mention in the roles and two stage photos (not in the public domain, unknown photographer).