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| Uhl Fritz | | tenore
[ 1928 - 2001 ]
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| He began his studies in 1947 with Elisabeth Rado in Vienna; even as a student, he toured Holland with an operetta troupe. In 1952 he debuted at the Leoben Theater as Gounod's Faust and was engaged for the Graz Opera House from 1952-53. From there, he moved to the Municipal Theater of Luzern for the 1953-54 season, then from 1954-56 appeared at the Municipal Theater of Oberhausen, and from 1956-58 at the Wuppertal Opera House. Here he began to sing Heldentenor roles and was thenceforth known primarily for his interpretation of Wagner. Starting in 1956, he was a member of the Munich State Opera company. Under guest artist contracts, he appearted at the Vienna State Opera and Stuttgart State Opera. At the Bayreuth Festival he appeared in 1957-58 as Kunz Vogelsang in Meistersinger, in 1957-59 as Melot in Tristan, in 1958 as Loge in Rheingold, from 1961-64 as Siegmund in Walküre, from 1959-61 as Erik in Der fliegende Holländer and in 1958 as the Seeman in Tristan and as the First Knight in Parsifal. He guested at the Salzburg Festival in 1958 as Florestan and from 1971-72 as the Drum Major in Alban Berg's Wozzeck. He was also a guest at the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Paris Opéra, in Nice, Strassburg, Lyon, Toulouse, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Mexico, Barcelona, Lisbon, Zagreb, San Francisco, and the Maggio Musicale in Florence. At Covent Garden in 1962 he appeared as Walther von Stolzing and the same year found him in Osaka singing Herod in the first Japanese staging of Salome. In 1976, he sang at the Linz Landestheater in the world premiere of Der Aufstand by Hulmut and at the Munich State Opera in the world premiere of Die Versuchung by Josef Tal. In 1969, at the same house, he appeared in the world premier of Ján Cikker's Das Spiel von Liebe und Tod and in 1985 sang in Sutermeister's Le roi Béranger. He appeared once more in Munich as the Count's piper in Hindemith's Mathis der Maler. Since 1981, he has been a Professor at the Vienna Conservatory. Recordings: Decca (Tristan), Philips (Der fliegender Holländer), DGG (Elektra, Antigonae), Westminster (Rheingold), Vox. |
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