Eugen Gura

Eugen Gura ( born November 8, 1842 in pressers at Saaz, Bohemia; † August 26, 1906 in Aufkirchen, Bavaria ) was an Austrian opera singer. He was considered one of the foremost Wagner singers of his time.

Life

Eugen Gura visited only the secondary school to Chomutov and 1860, the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna, then devoted himself to the Academy and from 1861 to the painting school in Munich temporarily painting and then left to prepare for the singing career by Franz Hauser and Joseph Herger in Munich.

Gura studied at the Munich Conservatory singing. In 1865 he was at the Royal Court and National Theatre debut. From 1867 he was engaged in Wroclaw and from 1870 in Leipzig as an opera singer. In 1876, he went first to Bayreuth, where he sang the role of Gunther in Wagner's Nibelungen tetralogy, and then accepted an engagement at the Hamburg City Theatre.

After an engagement in London, the baritone returned in the 1880s back to Munich and was in 1883 a member of the court theater in Munich since August.

29 (1894 /95) based on poems by Otto Julius Bierbaum Richard Strauss dedicated his Three Songs, Op ( dream through the twilight; Beating hearts; night transition ).

Gura was a member of the fraternity Olympia.

His daughter Sascha Gura was also an actress.