Wahn! Wahn! Uberall Wahn! Friedrich Schorr (Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)

Wahn! Wahn! Uberall Wahn!
Friedrich Schorr
Sachs's Monologue from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Richard Wagner)

Friedrich Schorr (September 2, 1888, Oradea (Nagyvarad at the time) - August 14, 1953, Farmington, New York) was an Austrian-Hungarian bass-baritone opera singer of Jewish origin. He later became a naturalized American.
The son of a hazzan who reportedly had a beautiful voice himself, Schorr studied in Brno and Vienna. He made his stage debut in Graz (1912-1916). Afterwards he worked in Prague (1916-1918), Cologne (1918-1923), Berlin (State Opera Unter den Linden, 1923-1931). He had guest appearances at Covent Garden (1924-1931), Metropolitan Opera (1924-1943) and the Wagnerian Bayreuth Festival (1925-1933). After the rise to power of Nazism in 1933, Schorr emigrated to the United States where he lived in New York City and worked at the Met (until 1943) and later as director and concert singer (together with Lotte Lehmann, Lauritz Melchior, Kirsten Flagstad and Helen Traubel).
Schorr is recognized as the greatest Wagnerian bass-baritone of his generation, arguably of the 20th century, and was famous for his portrayals of Wotan in Der Ring des Nibelungen and Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He made a number of recordings both in Europe and America. These recordings (although some of them were produced after he reached his artistic zenith) demonstrate Schorr's clear articulation, his excellent breathing technique and his great emotional expressiveness.
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[deramr]

This man is so much "head and shoulders above the competition", it's not even funny.

The idea of SINGING Wagner, in full tone and legato, and the little nuances he brings to every word, without the performance seeming contrived and keeping the phrases so flowing.

[jhb134]

@deramr - Also, the Schorr timbre was inimitable, and heartfelt accents and swells and diminuendos, were within the capabilities of his intelligence, voice and exceptionally-comprehensive, total interpretation. He's indelible ....

[mozart200657]

Simply the best Hans Sachs of all times

[jhb134]

@UnguruBulanTotal -Thanks for the note, about the re-naming of Nagyvarad! I'm sure that not, MANY Hungarians, nowadays, even know-about nor recognize this fellow, from the great days of singing, past. I wonder if many of your countrymen/women even know-about Bartok, Kodaly or others. Thanks again!

[UnguruBulanTotal]

He's born in my city,I was born there today Nagyvarad is named Oradea because there was a reform of our nation V.S. magyar one who named Oradea Nagyvarad :(