Karl Hammes
Karl Hammes (25 March 1896 – 6 September 1939) was a German operatic baritone, also a fighter pilot in the First and Second World Wars. He worked at the Bayreuth Festival, in Berlin, Cologne, Salzburg and Vienna, among others.
Life and career
Hammes was born in
Afterwards he studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. He made his stage debut at the Cologne Opera in 1925.[1] From 1927, he was a member of the Kroll Opera House in Berlin, where Otto Klemperer conducted.[1] Also in 1927, Hammes appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as Amfortas in Parsifal and as Gunther in the Götterdämmerung.[1] From 1929 to 1935, he was a member of the Vienna State Opera, with appearances at the Salzburg Festival, where he performed the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni from 1929 to 1931.[1] From 1935, Hammes was a regular guest at the Berlin State Opera from 1935.[1] He was appointed a Kammersänger.
In June 1937, Hammes joined the
Hammes made only few recordings. He appears as Harlekino in a complete recording of
Hammes died in Warsaw on 6 September 1939, at age 43.[1]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-3-59-844088-5.
- ^ Mückler 2008, pp. 36–37.
- ^ Mückler 2008, p. 38.
Sources
- ISBN 3-7001-3044-9.
- Alfons Friderichs (Autor): Hammes, Karl, in Persönlichkeiten des Kreises Cochem-Zell. Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3, p. 139.
- Mückler, Jörg (November–December 2008). "Le chanteur-guerrier: Karl Hammes, entre cockpit et scène d'opéra". Avions (in French). No. 166. pp. 35–39. ISSN 1253-5354.
External links
- Karl Hammes on Ludwig Maximilian Universität Munich
- Karl Hammes at IMDb
- Karl Hammes on FilmPortal.de
- Karl Hammes on Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank
- Karl Hammes discography at Discogs