Emil Fischer (singer)
Emil Fischer (born June 13, 1838 in Braunschweig , † August 11, 1914 in Hamburg ) was a German opera singer with the baritone and bass-baritone voices .
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Emil Fischer's parents were both opera singers. His father was the bassist Friedrich Fischer (1805–1871), his mother the soprano Caroline Fischer-Eighth (1806–1896). Emil Fischer received his vocal training from his parents. After initially performing as a tenor , he soon switched to the baritone and bass-baritone voices and made his debut at the Graz City Theater in 1857 as Seneschal in Jean de Paris von Boieldieu . He sang in succession at the Opera House in Preßburg , at the City Theater in Stettin and at the Court Theater in Braunschweig . From 1863 to 1870 he was director of the Gdansk City Theater , where he also appeared as a singer. He took on the same position from 1872 to 1874 at the Strasbourg City Theater . Further engagements as a singer followed at the Hoftheater Karlsruhe (1874–1875), at the Deutsche Oper Rotterdam (1875–1880) and at the Hofoper Dresden (1880–1885). He made several guest appearances at the Vienna Court Opera and in 1884 as Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden .
In 1885 Fischer went to the Metropolitan Opera in New York , where he made his debut as Landgraf in Wagner's Tannhäuser . Until 1891 he sang 30 different roles in 324 performances at the Met as a member of the ensemble, including various first performances, especially of Wagner operas. He sang there alongside Lilli Lehmann , Max Alvary and Marianne Brandt, among others .
From 1891 he worked as a singing teacher in New York and from 1894 to 1898 took part in tours of the Damrosch Opera Company . The Metropolitan Opera honored him in 1907 with a gala performance in which he sang excerpts from Wagner's Mastersingers with Hans Sachs' "mad monologue".
Emil Fischer's sound recordings have not survived.
Fischer was married to the actress Rosa Götz (1830–1895) for the first time.
Repertoire (selection)
- Mephisto in Faust by Charles Gounot
- Ramphis in Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
- Marcel in The Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Lysiart in Euryanthe by Carl Maria von Weber
- Abul Hassan in The Barber of Baghdad by Peter Cornelius
- Bombardon in The Golden Cross by Ignaz Brüll
- King Solomon in The Queen of Sheba by Karl Goldmark
Roles in Wagner operas
- König Marke in Tristan and Isolde
- Landgrave in Tannhauser
- Wotan in Das Rheingold
- Hagen in Götterdämmerung
- Hans Sachs in The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
- Wanderer in Siegfried
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 ( google.de [accessed on April 9, 2020]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1914 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |