Juan Luria - Don Juan's Serenade (Tchaikowsky)

sung in German with orchestra.
Odeon master xB 3956, rec. Berlin, July 1908.
Baritone Luria was born in Warszaw as Johannes Lorié in 1862. As many of the great singers of his time he studied with Joseph Gänsbacher in Vienna. He debuted in Stuttgart in 1885 and stayed there for five years before moving on to the Met in New York. However, he stayed only for one season and then moved on to Milano, where he sang as Giovanni Luria and created Wotan in the first Italian performance of Wagner's "Walküre" in 1893. Around the turn of the century he moved to Berlin, singing in the synagogues of Germany, Poland and the Netherlands as well as in numerous concerts. Occasionally he returned to the operatic stage, too. He sang (among others) as a guest at the Court Operas of Munich and Vienna and took part in the world premiere of Pfitzner's "Rose vom Liebesgarten" in 1901. From 1908 on he started to teach, and quite a few well-known singers such as Gotthelf Pistor, Käthe Heidersbach and Michael Bohnen studied with him. The last years of his life were tragic. He left Germany in 1937 and taught in Amsterdam and Den Haag. Then the German troops occupied the Netherlands in 1940. He spent his last years in greatest poverty under unwothy conditions and finally was deported and murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.

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• song
• lied
• Juan
• Luria
• baritone
• Don
• Serenade
• Tschaikowski
• Tchaikowsky
• Odeon