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A series of great OPERA Records from early G&Ts to World War II recordings on 78 rpm Victrola Records
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One of the early recording pioneers is Berlin Kammersaenger WERNER ALBERTI aka Werner Krzywonos Tenor
Who recorded for Edison and Berliner as early as 1901
Alberti, Werner, tenor, * January 21, 1860 Gnesen, † November 29, 1934 Berlin; actually Werner Krzywonos. Initially worked as a bank clerk in Berlin; then training by Martin Röder in Berlin. He was also a student of Mariano Padilla y Ramos, husband of the great prima donna Desirée Artôt. In 1887 he made his debut as a concert singer in Berlin, then from 1887-88 he went on a concert tour throughout Germany and Switzerland. In 1888 Angelo Neumann signed him to the German Theater in Prague, which he directed; it was here that he made his stage debut as Manrico in the »Troubadour«. From Prague he made guest appearances in 1889 at the Vienna Court Opera, the Leipzig Opera House, and later at the St. Petersburg and Moscow Court Operas. He remained engaged in Prague until 1894. In 1895 he made a very successful guest appearance at the Teatro Margherita in Genoa, whereupon the composer Pietro Mascagni induced him to take part in a tour of Germany at the Teatro Lirico in Milan. 1900-1902 he was engaged at the National Opera of Budapest. He later lived in Berlin, where he could often be heard at the Kroll Opera and the Theater des Westens. In 1903 he appeared at the Vienna Court Opera as Wilhelm Meister in "Mignon" by A. Thomas, in 1905 as Arnoldo in Rossini's "Wilhelm Tell", in 1907 at the Dresden Court Opera, in 1896 and 1904 at the Brno Opera House, in 1896 at the Zagreb Opera, 1899 at the opera houses in Frankfurt aM and Cologne, 1906 at the Vienna Volksoper, 1907 at the Warsaw Opera; further guest appearances in Bucharest and at the Teatro San Carlos in Lisbon, in 1904 as a concert singer in Scheveningen, in 1917 he could be heard at a summer opera in Berlin. In addition, he went to an extensive concert activity throughout his career; most recently he worked as a teacher in Berlin. What was especially admired about his tenor voice was its metallic sheen in the high and highest registers. His preferred stage roles were Count Almaviva in "Barbier von Sevilla", Edgardo in "Lucia di Lammermoor", Lyonel in Flotow's "Martha", Chapelou in A. Adam's "Postillon de Lonjumeau", Alessandro Stradella in the Opera of the same name by Flotow, George Brown in "La Dame blanche" by Boieldieu, Jean in "Prophet" by Meyerbeer, Raoul in "Huguenots" and Vasco in "L'Africaine" by the same master, Turiddu in »Cavalleria rusticana«, the Faust by Gounod and the Eleazar in »La Juive« by Halévy.
Records by the companies Berliner Records (Berlin, 1901), G & T (Budapest, 1901), Lyrophon (Berlin, 1904), Columbia, Polyphon, Jumbo, Favorit (Berlin, 1907), Beka, Homochord, but notably
Odeon (Berlin, 1905-06); also Edison cylinders and two Pathé cylinders (1904).
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