Description

OTTO BRIESEMEISTER (ARNSWALDE, 18 MAY, 1866 – BERLIN, 16 JUNE, 1910)

 

 

 

 

Born to an elementary teacher, he initially pursued medical studies at the universities of Berlin, Würzburg, and Leipzig, becoming a medical officer. Later, he shifted his focus to music and studied singing under Wiedemann in Leipzig. His operatic debut came in 1893 at the Court Theatre of Dessau, where he performed as Manrico in Verdi’s Il Trovatore.

He married actress Sidonie Hönig, and the couple lived in Berlin, where he balanced his operatic career with work as a specialist treating cervical conditions. Tragically, in 1910, while caring for his daughter during her illness with diphtheria, he contracted the disease himself and succumbed to it shortly thereafter.

 

Chronology of some appearances

 

1894-1895 Aachen Municipal Theatre

1895- 1900 Wroclaw Opera House

1899-1909 Bayreuth Festival

1899 Royal Opera in Stockholm

1900 London Covent Garden

1900 Hamburg Municipal Theatre

1900-1907 Stuttgart Court Opera

1901 Zurich Opera House

1901 Leipzig Opera House

1902 Vienna Court Opera

1903 Lyon Opera House

1903 Dresden Court Opera

1903-08 Mannheim Court Theatre

1903-1909 Prague German Theatre

1903-1909 Munich Court Opera

1905 Royal Opera in Stockholm

1905 Brno Opera House

1907 Leipzig Opera House

1907 Vienna Court Opera

1907 Karlsruhe Court Theatre

1909 Zurich Opera House

1909 Berlin Court Opera

1910 Bremen Municipal Theatre

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1. Rheingold (Wagner) Immer ist Undank Loges Lohn, pt 1 and pt 2 5038, 706 5039, 706 Anker, Berlin 1907-12
2. Rheingold (Wagner) Loge’s Erzählung 2-42920 1116e G&T, Bayreuth 1904-08
3. Rheingold (Wagner) Wer hälfe mir (w. Breuer) 2-42922 1130 Bay (e) G&T, Bayreuth 1904-08
4. Siegfried (Wagner) Nothung! Nothung! Neidliches Schwert! 64774 xB3464 Odeon, Berlin 1907-10
5. Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Wohin nun Tristan scheidet 5041, 707 Anker, Berlin 1907-12
6. Walküre (Wagner) Siegmund heiss’ ich und Siegmund bin ich 64803 xB3524 Odeon, Berlin 1907-11?
7. Walküre (Wagner) Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond 64776 xB3468 Odeon, Berlin 1907-10?