1916 MICHAEL BOHNEN WAGNER Meistersinger Fliedermonolog/ Ein Kind ward hier gebo

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A series of great  Opera records from early 1903 Russian G&Ts to 1940 German War time pressings

Bear of a man and sometimes boxer and famous German Movie Actor

MICHAEL BOHNEN Baritone on early Gramophone record

Gramophone, Berlin 1916-03?

 26. 959m Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner): Fliedermonolog 042498, 65183, 76515, 85274
 27. 960m Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner): Ein Kind ward hier geboren 042499, 65183, 76514, 85274

Original DG pressing with pasted over Opera Disc label12" 78 rpm record

Condition:

EXCELLENT two light rubs, plays E+ EXCEPTIONALLY QUIET

A SUPERB COPY

Michael Bohnen (left) with Elisabeth Rethberg and Lauritz Melchior en route to New York, 1932

Michael Bohnen (1887-1965) was a German bass-baritone who made his debut in Dusseldorf in 1910. He enjoyed a long association with the Berlin Staasoper and appeared at Covent Garden and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Franz Michael Bohnen (2 May 1887, Cologne - 26 April 1965, Berlin) was a German bass baritone opera singer and actor.

 Life
Michael Bohnen (left) with Elisabeth Rethberg and Lauritz Melchior en route to New York, 1932Michael Bohnen trained in opera singing at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and with a private tutor, making his debut in 1910 at the Stadttheater Düsseldorf. In 1912 he appeared at the Hoftheater Wiesbaden. From 1912 onwards he was a member of the Hofoper Berlin and from 1914 onwards appeared regularly at the Bayreuther Festspiele. He served in the early years of the First World War, but was recalled to the Berliner Hofoper in 1916. In 1925 he played Baron Ochs von Lerchenau in a film of the opera Der Rosenkavalier. After the war, Bohnen joined the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1922, and spent 1933 to 1934 in Buenos Aires. He had an affair with La Jana and entered into a long correspondence with her, now held by his granddaughter.

In Germany he also became popular as a spoken-word actor. In 1934 he returned to Berlin, first to the Staatsoper, then from 1935 to 1945 in the Deutschen Oper Berlin and after the end of the Second World War until 1947 as intendant of these halls (where he still sang until 1951) and as president of the Kammer der Kunstschaffenden. His time as intendant at the Städtischen Oper Berlin had to come to and end due to an accusation by his pupil, the tenor Hans Beirer, during the denazification process. His rehabilitation during the following years was slow, even though Beirer's accusation was quickly revealed as false. Bohnen thus died in complete poverty, with only a small wage from the city of Berlin. He is buried in Berlin's Friedhof Heerstraße.

[edit] Partial filmography1935: August der Starke (with Lil Dagover)
1939: Das unsterbliche Herz (with Heinrich George, Kristina Söderbaum u. a.)
1940: Der liebe Augustin (with Paul Hörbiger, Maria Andergast, Rudolf Prack u. a.)

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