Benno Kusche |

Benno Kusche

He mele Kelemānia (bass-baritone). Ua hana ʻo ia i kāna hana mua ma 1938 ma Heidelberg (ke kuleana o Renato ma Un ballo in maschera). Ma mua o ke kaua, hīmeni ʻo ia ma nā hale keaka like ʻole ma Kelemānia. Mai ka makahiki 1946 ma ka Bavarian Opera (Munich). Ua hana ʻo ia ma La Scala, Covent Garden (1952-53). I ka makahiki 1954 ua lanakila 'o ia iā Leporello ma ka Glyndebourne Festival.

Ua komo ʻo ia i ka honua mua o Orff's Antigone (1949, Salzburg Festival). I ka makahiki 1958, hīmeni ʻo ia i ka ʻāpana o Papageno ma ka Komische-Opera (hoʻokani ʻia e Felsenstein). I ka makahiki 1971-72, hana 'o ia ma ka Metropolitan Opera (debut as Beckmesser in Wagner's Die Meistersinger Nuremberg). No nā hoʻopaʻa ʻana, ʻike mākou i nā ʻāpana o Faninal i The Rosenkavalier (i alakaʻi ʻia e K. Kleiber, Deutsche Grammophon) a me Beckmesser (i alakaʻi ʻia e Keilbert, Euro-disk).

E. Tsoodokov