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ALBUMForemost Puccini Singers of the Early Twentieth CenturyAlessandro Bonci, Giuseppe Anselmi, Lina Cavalieri, John McCormack, Rosa Ponselle, Giovanni Zentella, Maria Sammarca, Ferdinand Ansseaau, Mattia Battistini, Claudia Muzio, Enrico Caruso, Elisabeth Rethberg, Richard Tauber, Rosa Raisa, Aureliano Pertile, Emmy Destinn, Alfred Piccaver, Florence Easton, Antonio Cortis, Dmitri Smirnov, Anne Roselle & Giovanni Martinelli
ALBUMSchmidt - a Song Goes Round the WorldStaatskapelle Berlin, Selmar Meyrowitz, Joseph Schmidt, Irene Eisinger, Studio Orchestra, Felix Gunther, Frieder Weissmann, Studio Chorus, Richard Tauber, Parlophon Orchestra, Otto Dobrindt, Clemens Schmalstich, Walter Goehr, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Wilhelm Grosz, Max Niederberger & Hans Schleger
ALBUMChristmas From A Golden Age (1925-1950)Aksel Schiotz, Mogens Woldike, Studio Orchestra, Margarete Matzenauer, Rosario Bourdon, John McCormack, Trinity Church Choir, New York, Rosa Ponselle, Marcel Journet, Claudia Muzio, Lorenzo Molajoli, Giovanni Martinelli, Ladies' Chorus, Hulda Lashanska, Paul Reimers, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Stewart Wille, Richard Crooks, Elisabeth Schumann, Dorothy Maynor, Studio Chorus, Edwin Schneider, Gladys Swarthout, Milton Katims, The RCA Victor Orchestra, Victoria de los Ángeles, Renata Tarrago, Gracià Tarragó, John Charles Thomas, Carroll Hollister, Lawrence Tibbett, Clarence Dickinson, Georges Thill, Armand Bernard, Richard Tauber & Henry Geehl
ALBUMRichard Tauber - You Are My Heart's DelightStudio Orchestra, Richard Tauber, Walter Goehr, Karl Alwin, Vienna Philharmonic, Henry Geehl, Franz Lehár, Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin Deutschen Kunstlertheaters, Ernst Hauke, Carlotta Vanconti, Frieder Weissmann, Odeon Kunstlerorchester, Paul Dessau & Berlin Grossen Schauspielhause Orchestra
ALBUMSchöne and Tauber in OperettaRichard Tauber, Lotte Schöne, Franz Lehár, Orchestra of the Deutsche Künstler Theater Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Orchestra of the Theater an der Wien, Orchestra of the Schauspielhaus Berlin, Odeon-Künstler Orchestra, Hermann Weigert, Anton Paulik, Ernst Hauke & Erich Wolfgang Korngold
About Richard Tauber
Artist Biography
b. Ernst Seifert, 16 May 1891, Linz, Austria-Hungary, d. 8 January 1948, London, England. After enjoying a successful career in Europe as a star of opera and operetta, Tauber went to England in 1933 at the time of Nazi ascendancy. In Vienna, Tauber had his greatest success with Das Land Des Lächelns (1929), in which he sang Franz Lehár’s ‘Das Ist Mein Ganzes Herz’. It was this show with which he made his reputation in London. With The Land Of Smiles (1931) and its hit song, ‘You Are My Heart’s Delight’, he found a new and admiring audience. Tauber’s rich yet light lyric tenor was well suited to operetta and musical comedy and he commanded a huge following. He played several shows in London, including Paganini (1937) and Blossom Time (1942), and also wrote and starred in Old Chelsea (1943). For the latter, he composed a song that became a hit, ‘My Heart And I’. In addition to playing in the West End, Tauber also toured the provinces in shows and as a solo act. He also visited America, appearing on Broadway including appearing in Yours Is My Heart (1946), a re-working of The Land Of Smiles.
Tauber had made films in Germany and continued to do so in England, some of them screen versions of his stage musicals. These films included, in Germany, Das Lockende Ziel, Das Land Des Lächelns (both 1930), Die Große Attraktion (1931) and Melodie Der Liebe (1932). In England he made Blossom Time, April Romance (both 1934), Heart’s Desire (1935), Land Without Music (US title: Forbidden Music) (1936), with music by Oscar Straus and with Tauber’s starring role supported by American comedian Jimmy Durante, and Pagliacci (US title: A Clown Must Laugh) (1937), which was based upon Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s opera. As World War II ended, Tauber made Waltz Time (1945), the storyline of which resembles but does not credit Johann Strauss the Younger’s Die Fledermaus, in which the popular duo of Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth also appeared. Tauber’s last screen appearance was in The Lisbon Story (1946), a film version of a London stage show that included the popular song, ‘Pedro The Fisherman’. Tauber recorded this song although he did not sing it in the film. Tauber’s film acting, like his stage acting, left a lot to be desired and his physical appearance was not quite what the scripts called for; no dashing young man was he. None of that mattered when he sang.
Hometown
Linz, Austria
Genre
Classical
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