Carl Braun (bass)

Carl Brown (also: Brown - Large, born June 2, 1886 in Meisenheim, † April 24, 1960 in Hamburg ) was a German opera singer.

Life

Brown began his career in 1906 in Wiesbaden, then he stepped from 1911 to the Vienna State Opera and in Berlin. At the Bayreuth Festival from 1906 to 1931 he performed bass and baritone parts. Height of his career were the years 1912 to 1917, where he was a member of the New York Metropolitan Opera and stood among others, with Enrico Caruso and Pasquale Amato on stage. From 1920 to 1927 he appeared in the Berlin State Opera. In the years 1927 to 1933 he was a soloist at the Richard Wagner Festival in Sopot Forest Opera.

Brown was an early sympathizer of Hitler and a member of the nationalist -minded, anti -Semitic League of Struggle for German Culture Greater Berlin, where he worked as an assessor in the group opera. Since August 1, 1932 he was a member of the NSDAP with the party number 1282767. Until 1933/1934 he worked at the German Opera House Berlin. Brown, who belonged to the administrative council of the Reich Chamber of Music was in 1935 after finishing his career as a singer in the short term game manager of the Opera. At the Volksoper in the theater of the West From 1937 to 1945 he worked as a stage agent in Berlin, since 1945 in Oberhausen, Germany and from 1949 in Hamburg. Most recently, he lived in retirement in Hamburg.