Richard Tauber

RICHARD TAUBER
16 May 1891 – 8 January 1948
Austrian Tenor
He made his public debut at a concert at Freiburg on 17 May 1912,his father was appointed Intendant of the Municipal Theatre in Chemnitz and was therefore in a position to arrange for Richard to appear as Tamino in The Magic Flute on 2 March 1913. Dresden Opera who had already offered Tauber a five-year contract, commencing on 1 August.,Made his made his Vienna State Opera debut on 16 June in La bohème , He signed a five-year contract with the Vienna State Opera and appearances with the Berlin State Opera tenor role in many operas, including Don Giovanni, The Bartered Bride, Tosca, Mignon, Faust, Carmen and Die Fledermaus, as well as newer works such as Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt and Wilhelm Kienzl's Der Evangelimann.Gounod's Faust, Bacchus in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos .Tauber first performed in an operetta by Franz Lehár at the Volksbuhne in Berlin in 1920