Fritz Uhl

Fritz Uhl ( born April 2, 1928 in Vienna, † 21 May 2001, Munich ) was an Austrian singer in the vocal range Tenor.

Uhl was born in the district of Vienna Matzleinsdorf. He studied from 1947 to Elisabeth Radó in Vienna and traveled while still a student with an operetta troupe the Netherlands. In 1952 he made his debut in the title role of Gounod's Faust at the Stadttheater Leoben. Then he sang from 1952 to 1953 in Graz, 1953-1954 in Lucerne from 1954 to 1956 in Oberhausen and 1956 to 1958 in Wuppertal, where he began to sing heroic tenor roles. From 1956 Uhl was member of the Munich State Opera, and had guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera and the Stuttgart State Opera.

At the Bayreuth Festival, he sang the 1957-58 Kunz Vogelsang in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the 1957-59 Melot in Tristan and Isolde, 1958 the Loge in Das Rheingold, 1961-64 Siegmund in Die Walküre, the 1959-61 Erik in the Flying Dutchman and 1958 boys sailor in Tristan and Isolde and the first Gralsitter in Parsifal.

In 1958, Fritz Uhl sang at the Salzburg Festival, the Florestan in Fidelio 1971-72 and took over the role of drum major in Alban Berg's Wozzeck.

The tenor has appeared in Nice, Strasbourg, Lyon and Toulouse, at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Barcelona, ​​Lisbon, Zagreb, and in San Francisco.

In 1962, Uhl sang Walther in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Stolzing in London, the same year he took over in Osaka at the Japanese premiere of Richard Strauss's opera Salome Herod's game. In 1976 he sang at the State Theatre of Linz in the world premiere of the opera The uprising of Helmut Eder, the same year he appeared in the premiere of the opera The Temptation of Josef Tal at the Staatsoper in Munich, where he in 1989 the piper of Count in Paul Hindemith's opera Mathis der Maler. He also participated in the premieres of Jan Cikker The game of love and death in 1969, and Heinrich Suter master opera Le roi Beranger in 1985, both held in Munich.

Fritz Uhl was from 1981 professor at the Vienna Conservatory.