Richard tauber tenor biography

Richard Tauber was one of the leading tenors of his time.
Richard Tauber (– 8 January 1948) was an Austrian lyric tenor and film actor.
Richard Tauber was born at Lintz in Austria on the 16th of May 1891.

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Richard Tauber

Austrian tenor and actor

Richard Tauber
Richard Tauber on a cigarette card
Born	Richard Denemy (1891-05-16)16 May 1891 Linz, Austria-Hungary
Died	8 January 1948(1948-01-08) (aged 56) London, England
Occupation(s)	Opera singer, actor
Years active	1912–1947
Spouses	Carlotta Vanconti (m. 1926; div. 1928)

Richard Tauber (16 May 1891 – 8 January 1948)^[1] was an Austrian lyric tenor and film actor. He performed the tenor role in numerous operas, including Don Giovanni by Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte.

Early life

Richard Tauber was born in Linz, Austria, to Elisabeth Seifferth (née Denemy), a widow and actress who performed soubrette roles at the local theater, and Richard Anton Tauber, an actor. His parents were not married, and his father was reportedly unaware of his birth as he was touring North America at the time. The child was named Richard Denemy. He was sometimes known as [Carl] Richard Tauber and also used his mother's married

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Richard Tauber

A reader recently asked why I had not written anything about Richard Tauber. I didn’t have a good answer and said I would; this is it. Tauber (1891-1948) was born in Linz, Austria to an unmarried actress. His father was an actor Richard Anton Tauber who eventually acknowledged him and took over his upbringing. Young Tauber wanted to be a singer and was enrolled in a school where he not only studied singing, but also piano, composition, and conducting. This musical education, atypical for a singer, differentiated him from his peers as his career brought him worldwide fame.

After further vocal study with Carle Bienes, Tauber made his operatic debut as Tamino in The Magic Flute in Municipal Theatre in Chemnitz where his father was intendant. He gradually became more prominent such that by 1920 he was a leading tenor at the Vienna State Opera and then at the Berlin State Opera.

He was an amazingly quick study learning the title role in Gounod’s Faust in two days and Baccus in Strauss’ Ariadne Auf Naxos overnight. He saved the German premiere

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Tauber, Richard

Tauber, Richard, eminent Austrian-born English tenor; b. Linz, May 16, 1891; d. London, Jan. 8, 1948. He was the illegitimate son of the actor Richard Anton Tauber; his mother was a soubrette singer. He was christened Richard Denemy after his mother’s maiden name, but he sometimes used the last name Seiffert, his mother’s married name. He took courses at the Hoch Cons, in Frankfurt am Main and studied voice with Carl Beines in Freiburg im Breisgau. He made his operatic debut at Chemnitz as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (March 2, 1913) with such success that he was engaged in the same year at the Dresden Court Opera; made his first appearance at the Berlin Royal Opera as Strauss’s Bacchus in 1915, and later won particular success in Munich and Salzburg for his roles in Mozart’s operas. About 1925 he turned to lighter roles, and won remarkable success in the operettas of Lehár. He made his U.S. debut on Oct. 28, 1931, in a N.Y. recital. In 1938 he settled in England, where he appeared as Tamino and Belmonte at London’s Co vent Garden. In 1940 he became a naturalize