Juan Luria

Juan Luria, also Giovanni Luria, actually John Lorie Lorie or ( born December 20 1862 in Warsaw, † May 21 1943 in Sobibor extermination camp ) was a Polish baritone.

Life

Luria studied singing with Josef Gänsbacher in Vienna. His operatic debut was in 1884 at the Vienna Court Opera. In 1885 he was engaged at the Court Theatre in Stuttgart. In the season 1890/91 he sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, among others, the Count of Nevers in the Huguenots, the Don Pizarro in Fidelio, the Kurvenal in Tristan and Isolde and the Alberich and Gunther in the ring. In 1891 he sang in several Italian opera houses, such as La Scala in Milan in 1897 as Wotan in the Italian premiere of Valkyrie. This was followed by guest appearances in Berlin, Elberfeld, Vienna, Munich and Brussels.

After he was in 1908 occurred most recently at the Berlin Theatre of the West, to Luria devoted to his work as a singing teacher in Charlottenburg. Among his pupils Elfriede Marherr (1888-1973), Katherine Heider Bach Källe (1897-1979), Michael Bohnen, Delaware Gotthelft and Gotthelf Pistor ( 1887-1947 ).

When, after the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the repression of Jews tended to take greater proportions, Luria fled in 1937 in the Netherlands, where he taught in Amsterdam and The Hague. After the occupation of the Netherlands by the Wehrmacht in May 1940 Luria was interned Jews in Westerbork transit camp, deported from there on 18 May 1943 at the Sobibor extermination camp and murdered upon arrival.