Caspar Koch (singer)

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Caspar Koch (born November 24, 1889 in Cologne ; † December 5, 1952 there ) was a German opera singer (tenor) who had his artistic heyday in the period from 1917 to 1928.

Koch studied singing at the Cologne Conservatory , but was then initially drafted into military service, from which he was released in 1917, soon after he had married his wife Else through a war wedding. In the same year he was engaged by the Cologne Opera , where he worked until 1926. From 1927 to 1928 he worked at the Düsseldorf Opera , but also appeared at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth in 1927 . In Wagner's Rheingold there he played the role of Froh. In 1928 the Kroll Opera in Berlin entrusted him with the lead role in the premiere of Igor Stravisky's Oedipus Rex. In the following years, shaped by the global economic crisis, he withdrew more and more from the stage, had even smaller appearances as an entertainment singer at festive events and otherwise worked mainly as a singing teacher in Cologne, Munich and Berlin.

Some vocal pieces were published in 1922 and 1923 on acoustically recorded Vox records , which reproduced his extraordinary tenor voice in a particularly natural way.