Great Singers Live: Fritz Wunderlich (LP, Br-Klassik)

Although it has now been fifty years since Fritz Wunderlich tragically died on September 17, 1966, his incomparable tenor voice has remained unforgettable. This is due to the fact that his artistic career began like a comet: the young singer was hired by a Freiburg student performance of Mozart’s Magic Flute at the Stuttgart State Opera, then went via Frankfurt to Munich, performed at the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival an offer from the New York Metropolitan Opera was already available. Above all, one remembers his vital, cheerful personality as well as his almost unlimited resilient voice full of enamel, with great abundance and radiance and an enchanting timbre. On the CD newly released by BR-KLASSIK on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, Fritz Wunderlich presents himself in early, previously unpublished radio recordings that were made between 1959 and 1965.