1922 OTTO MACHA Wagner TANNHAUSER Fliegende Holländer Steuermannslied Polydor
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A series of great OPERA Records from early G&Ts to World War II recordings on 78 rpm Victrola Records
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Czech-Austrian Heldentenor Ottokar Macha in one of his rare Polydor records
in the role of Steersman and Walther
Fliegende Holländer (Wagner): Steuermannslied/ Tannhäuser (Wagner): Der Bronnen, den uns Wolfgang nannte
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Macha, Otto
Macha, Ottokar, tenor, * January 31, 1895 Klagenfurt, † (?); He came from a Czech family and received his first vocal training at the Prague Conservatory with K. Burian, which he continued with August Iffert in Dresden. His debut took place in 1915 at the Plzen City Theater, of which he was a member until 1918. Then he moved to the Vinohradské Divadlo (Theater in the Vineyards) Prague. In 1920 he was engaged as a hero tenor at the German State Theater in Prague, where he mainly focused on the Wagner repertoire. From 1927-29 he worked at the Saarbrücken Theater, 1929-30 at the Stadttheater von Münster (Westphalia), 1930-33 at the Deutsches Theater Teplitz-Schönau, 1933-34 at the Deutsches Theater von Aussig (Ustí nad Labem). In 1934-37 he appeared as a guest at various Czech theaters, including the National Theater in Prague. 1939-42 he was again a member of the German Theater Brno (Brno). The focus of his repertoire was on roles such as Florestan in "Fidelio", Max in "Freischütz", Lohengrin, Tannhauser, Siegmund in "Valkyrie", Othello by Verdi, Canio in "Bajazzo", and José in "Carmen", the Hans in the "Bartered Bride", the Lukas in "Hubicka" ("The Kiss") by Smetana, the Samson in "Samson et Dalila" by Saint-Saëns and the Dürer in "Herr Dürer's picture" by Mrazek. Guest appearances have also taken him to larger theaters in Germany and Austria, Holland, Italy and Poland. His father was the well-known cellist Ottokar Macha sr. (1872-1924); he himself later took on a lectureship at the Vienna City Conservatory. He was married to the dancer Maria Klimesch. He spent his twilight years in Baden near Vienna.
Records: acoustic recordings on Polydor, including a duet with Beate Malkin.
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