Carl Lippert-Schroth
28 October 1883 Saarlouis – 8 July 1959
Carl Lippert-Schroth was born into an artist family: both his mother and his grandmother were theater directors,
his grandfather was an actor. Actor was also Lippert-Schroth's first profession: in Mulhouse, Freiburg, and eventually in
Leipzig, where he met Jacques Urlus, took voice lessons – and made a second debut as an operatic tenor in 1908.
His first name, by the way, regularly appears also in the more modern orthography as Karl, while he often shortened
his family name to Schroth only.
He stayed at the Leipzig opera theater until 1914, then he went on to Augsburg. In 1915, he interrupted his career to fight
WWI.
1919–21, he sang in Freiburg, 1921/22 at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich, 1922–24 again in Leipzig, but
this time at the operetta theater. Then he spent a few years as a freelancer, before accepting contracts in Brno/Brünn
(1928/29), Coburg (1929/30), at the Corso-Theater in Zürich (1930–32), at the Vienna Volksoper (1932–34),
and in Piła/Schneidemühl (1934–38). At the two latter theaters, he was both a stage director and a singer. The last
few years of his career (until 1941), he was an actor again, in Piła/Schneidemühl and Coburg.
In opera, he specialized in the lighter heldentenor repertory (Lohengrin, Parsifal); in operetta, he was a successful
Barinkay or Goethe (in Friederike by Lehár).
Reference: Kutsch & Riemens
Discography
Symphonion Saphir, Leipzig 1909 (late)
Lohengrin (Wagner): Nun sei bedankt 6142
Am Rhein und beim Wein (Ries) 6146
Symphonion Saphir, Leipzig 1910-01 (?)
Postillon de Lonjumeau (Adam): Freunde, vernehmet die Geschichte 6194
Symphonion Nadel, Leipzig 1910-02
2185 Martha (Flotow): Ach so fromm 10135
2187 Postillon de Lonjumeau (Adam): Freunde, vernehmet die Geschichte 10134
Symphonion Nadel, Leipzig 1910-03
2293 Leise flehen meine Lieder (Schubert) 10203
Symphonion Nadel, Leipzig 1910-04
2394 Bruder Straubinger (Eysler): Küssen ist keine Sünd' 10263
2395 Der fliegende Holländer (Wagner): Mit Gewitter und Sturm 10256, GDP* 6076
2397A Freischütz (Weber): Durch die Wälder, durch die Auen 10201
2397B Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner): Morgenlich leuchtend 10266
2398 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner): Am stillen Herd 10262
2399 Zar und Zimmermann (Lortzing): Sonst spielt' ich 10267, GDP* 6122
2400 Ich sende diese Blume dir (J. F. Wagner) 10268
Lasst mir die Heimat (Feldigl) 6226
Symphonion Nadel, Leipzig 1910-09
2775 Mein Himmel auf der Erde (Pfeil) 10558
2776 Rothaarig ist mein Schätzelein (J. Wolff) 10559
Symphonion Saphir, Leipzig 1910-10
Frühling und Liebe (Sieber) 6289
* GDP = Grau's Doppel-Platte
References: Gesellschaft für historische Tonträger, Wien; 78opera.com (defunct); Rainer E.
Lotz/Axel Weggen/Christian Zwarg: Discographie der deutschen Gesangsaufnahmen, vol. 3, Bonn 2001
I wish to thank Anton Bieber for the discography, the recordings and label scans.
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