Andreas Dippel

30 November 1866 – 12 May 1932

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Andreas Dippel sings Die Königin von Saba: Am Fuß des Libanon
In RA format

Andreas Dippel sings Lohengrin: Mein lieber Schwan
In RA format

Andreas Dippel sings Martha: Ach so fromm
In RA format

I wish to thank Tom Silverbörg for the recordings.

His father was an industrialist. After vocal studies in Kassel, Berlin, Milano and Vienna, he was first at the Bremen theater from 1887 to 1892; in 1889, he sang small parts at the Bayreuth Festival, and in the 1890/91 season, he made his Met debut as a guest. 1892/93 in Wrocław/Breslau, 1893–98 at the Vienna Hofoper. Several guest appearances at Covent Garden from 1897 to 1900.

In 1898, he was hired by the Met, where he spent the rest of his career and was also involved in the theater management from 1900 to 1910. 1910–13, he was the director of the Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company, then he founded his own company, which toured all of North America.

Partial repertory

This is only for starters; all in all, he sang more than 150 parts!
Martha – Bremen, Stadttheater, September 1887
Der fliegende Holländer (Steuermann) – Bremen, 30 November 1887
Parsifal (Knappe) – Bayreuth, 1889
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Esslinger) – Bayreuth, 1889
Tristan und Isolde (Junger Seemann) – Bayreuth, 1889
Tannhäuser – 1889
Faust – Hamburg, Mai 1890
Lohengrin – Hamburg, May 1890
Euryanthe (Adolar) – Hamburg, May 1890
Fidelio
Die Zauberflöte
Alessandro Stradella
Les huguenots
Il trovatore
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Stolzing)
Siegfried
Die Götterdämmerung
Die Walküre
Asrael (composer: Franchetti, role: Asrael) – New York, Met, 26 November 1890
Der Vasall von Szigeth (composer: Smareglia, role: Andor)-New York, Met, 12 December 1890
Diana von Solange (composer: Ernst von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, role: Armand) – New York, MET, 9 January 1891
L'Africaine – New York, Met, 21 January 1891
Der Barbier von Bagdad – New York, Met, 30 January 1891
Carmen – New York, Met, 2 March 1891
Aida – New York, Met, 16 January 1898
La bohème (composer: Leoncavallo) – Wien, Hofoper, 23 February 1898
Der fliegende Holländer (Erik) – London, Covent Garden, 1898
Rheingold (Froh) – New York, Met,12 January 1899
Cavalleria rusticana – London, Covent Garden, 1899
Norma – London, Covent Garden 1899
La traviata – New York, Met, 16 October 1899
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor – New York, Met, 9 March 1901
Don Giovanni – New York, Met, 18 April 1900
Tosca – New York, Met, 19 December 1903
Il barbiere di Siviglia – New York, Met, 16 January 1904
Parsifal – New York, Met, 16 February 1904
Don Pasquale – New York, Met, 9 December 1904
Lucia di Lammermoor – New York, Met, 7 January 1905
La bohème – New York, Met, 30 January 1905
Tristan und Isolde – New York, Met, 11 February 1905
Die Fledermaus (Eisenstein) – New York, Met, 16 February 1905
La Gioconda – New York, Met, 16 December 1905
Der Zigeunerbaron – New York, Met, 15 February 1906
Rigoletto – New York, Met, 24 February 1906
Die Königin von Saba – New York, Met, 16 April 1906
Salome (Narraboth) – New York, Met, 22 January 1907
Madama Butterfly – New York, Met, 2 March 1907
With Grüning, Dippel was one of the most underrated German tenors.
Reference 1: Einhard Luther Helden an geweihtem Ort. Biographie eines Stimmfaches, Teil 2: Wagnertenöre in Bayreuth (1894–1914), Trossingen – Berlin 2002
Reference 2: Kutsch & Riemens

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