Eduard Kandl

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Eduard Kandl (born January 2, 1876 in Herrsching am Ammersee ; † January 17, 1966 there ) was a German opera singer ( bass voice ) and actor on stage and film. His "special love was for the strange characters in the works of Lortzing and Smetana".

Live and act

Kandl received his vocal training at the turn of the century and began his stage career in 1904 at Nuremberg's city theater . This was followed in the 1905/06 season by an engagement at the City Theater of St. Gallen , while from 1906 to 1912 he was a member of the Kiel City Theater ensemble. Kandl's most important creative period fell between 1912 and 1944, when the Bavarian bass belonged to the German Opera House ( Städtische Oper ) Berlin until all German theaters were closed . Here he sang on January 23, 1914 in the world premiere of the opera Mandragola by Ignaz Waghalter (born March 15, 1882 in Warsaw) and a good two years later, on March 17, 1916, in the world premiere of the opera Dame Kobold by Felix Weingartner . Kandl celebrated his last glamorous premiere on October 23, 1936 with the world premiere of the operetta When the Tsarina Smiles by Clemens Schmalstich .

The bass buffo had an international reputation, mainly due to his interpretations of buffo roles in Lortzing operas. Eduard Kandl celebrated further successes at the Berlin Kroll Opera from 1927–1930 , especially as Kezal in The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana , as Bartolo in the barber of Seville , as a frog in the ostrich bat and as a worm in Luisa Miller by Giuseppe Verdi . In addition, he appeared in 1928 at the Städtische Oper Berlin in the world premiere of the opera Die Mondnacht by Julius Bittner . Another success was granted to Bayern in 1931 at the Berlin State Opera with the Don Magnifico in Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola . In 1929 Kandl made guest appearances in The Hague, in 1931 and 1939 at the Vienna State Opera and in 1941 in German-occupied Amsterdam, where he could be seen and heard as Beckmesser in Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg .

In those years Eduard Kandl, who had already been shown to have worked in two silent films, also appeared in several short and long sound films, in which, however, he almost exclusively had to take care of the musical vocal interludes. After the Second World War, Kandl returned to his hometown and hometown Herrsching am Ammersee and spent his retirement there. The artist died here a good two weeks after his 90th birthday.

Filmography (complete)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1967, p. 111 (short obituary)

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personal data
SURNAME Kandl, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and operetta singer and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrsching am Ammersee
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 1966
Place of death Herrsching