There's an old belief system that singers who do well in opera can't sing lieder and vice versa. Not true -- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Hans Hotter, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau are just some of the names that come up when you think of singers that put the lie to that myth. Nevertheless, many singers do gravitate toward one or the other; louder singers tend to do better on the stage than in the more intimate setting of the lied. One name that you can add to the stellar pantheon above is that of German tenor Leo Slezak, father ...
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There's an old belief system that singers who do well in opera can't sing lieder and vice versa. Not true -- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Hans Hotter, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau are just some of the names that come up when you think of singers that put the lie to that myth. Nevertheless, many singers do gravitate toward one or the other; louder singers tend to do better on the stage than in the more intimate setting of the lied. One name that you can add to the stellar pantheon above is that of German tenor Leo Slezak, father to actor Walter Slezak who probably had his most representative turn as Willy in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), though he is perhaps best remembered as the Clock King in the Batman television series. The elder Slezak also had a late career in film, playing the avuncular uncle in Viennese musical comedies in the 1930s -- his singing career, however, began in Brünn in Lohengrin in 1896. He is also remembered as the tenor who once asked, "When is the next swan?" when mistakenly...
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