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Michael Bohnen at the Metropolitan Opera, New York Recorded 1922-26, 1930 Download ID: 265033 (Duration 75'50") Restoration by HTS Studio for Hänssler Classic COMES WITH ENGLISH NOTES & COVERS

Votre Toast - Bizet - Carmen

Anyone trying to write about Michael Bohnen hardly knows where to begin.With the opera singer, the gifted bass-baritone whom the prolific music commentator Oskar Bie described at the time as the only »singing actor« on the stage?

With the operetta hero, the »Casanova« discovered by Max Reinhardt? With the film producer and sensational actor in silent movies? With the heavy athlete with a biceps measurement of 37 cm who sparred with and helped train his friend Max Schmeling to become a world heavyweight champion in a
Cologne gym?

With the strongman who squeezed horseshoes together with one hand in emulation of his idol Augustus the Strong? With the racing driver who won 14 first prizes at races in Baden-Baden and three times even
beat Rudolf Caracciola and the famous Kleist brothers?

With the painter and friend of Louis Corinth (1858-1925)? With the sculptor, with the philosopher? Or perhaps with the tokens of recognition he received from all over the German-speaking world for his services to German art?

After a performance of Parsifal when he was only twenty-five, Kaiser Wilhelm II personally appointed him royal Kammersanger. After the Second World War he received the First Class Order of Merit of the
Federal Republic from Theodor Heuss, the first president of post-war Germany. He was awarded the Goethe Prize of Berlin and was made an honorary member of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.

At Christmas 1964, moreover, the Metropolitan Opera also granted him honorary membership with pension benefits - an honour accorded no other German singer.

Michael Bohnen's fame has survived into our time. The city of Berlin has named a street after him and erected a commemorative plaque on the Kurfurstendamm. His bust stands in the foyer of the German Opera, while Cologne, the city of his birth, remembers him with bronze plaques on the house in which he was born and at the site where the old Cologne Opera once stood...

Excerpted from enclosed sleevenotes, Thomas Voigt © 2004

Track Listing:

1. Si può - Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci
2. Ha, welch ein Augenblick - Beethoven - Fidelio
3. Hat man nicht auch Gold beineben - Beethoven - Fidelio
4. Hier im ird' schen Jammertal - Weber - Die Freischütz
5. Schweig, schweig, damit dich niemand warnt - Weber - Die Freischütz
6. Le veau d'or - Gounod - Faust
7. Scheinst zu schlafen (Vous qui faites l'endormie) - Gounod - Faust
8. Votre Toast - Bizet - Carmen
9. Sei vendicata assai (Ah! Mon remords te venge) - Meyerbeer - Dinorah
10. Nonnes qui reposez - Meyerbeer - Robert le Diable
11. O Isis und Osiris - Mozart - Die Zauberflöte
12. In diesen heil' gen Hallen - Mozart - Die Zauberflöte
13. Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge - Wagner - Das Rheingold
14. Leb' wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind - Wagner - Die Walküre
15. Blick ich umher - Wagner - Tannhäuser
16. O du mein holder Abendstern - Wagner - Tannhäuser
17. Wahn! Wahn! Überall Wahn! - Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
18. Seht hier des Meeres wunderbarsten Schatz - Schillings - Mona Lisa
19. Oh Wein, zerstreu' unsere Sorgen (O vin dissipe la tristesse) - Thomas - Hamlet
20. Oh Wein, zerstreu' unsere Sorgen (O vin dissipe la tristesse) - Thomas - Hamlet

Please note: This is not a Pristine Audio historic restoration.

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