Karl Scheidemantel [SEP] voice type
Karl Scheidemantel
Karl Scheidemantel (29 January 1859 – 26 June 1923) was a baritone singer, and later an opera director.
Life and career.
Born in Weimar, the son of a Weimar court artist, Scheidemantel found great success in various roles in the operas of Richard Wagner. Among his supporters were Bodo Borchers in Weimar, well known voice teacher Julius Stockhausen in Frankfurt, and composer Franz Liszt. At the age of 25 he joined the ensemble of the Dresden Hofoper where he was named Kammersänger, "
, Karl: "Stimmbildung".
- Scheidemantel, Karl: "Gesangbildung".
- He translated Mozarts "Don Giovanni".
- "Pechvogel und Lachtaube", text: Karl Scheidemantel, music: Georg Pittrich.
Literature.
- Paul Trede: "Karl Scheidemantel", Carl Reißner, Dresden 1911.
External links.
- Karl Scheidemantel images, library of the Goethe University Frankfurt