Andreas Dippel
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.
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 |
