Paul Kalisch

Paul Kalisch ( born November 6, 1855 in Berlin, † January 27, 1946 in St. Lawrence, Upper Austria ) was a German tenor.

Life

Paul Kalisch was born in 1855 as one of five children of the Jewish writer and founder of the Kladderadatsch David Kalisch and his wife Sophia in Berlin. Kalisch was supposed to be an architect, but his plans changed after he had submitted some songs by Franz Schubert and Richard Wagner at a meeting in the house of his brother Paul Lindau and was then addressed by the present Adelina Patti to a career at the opera. Kalisch traveled to Italy soon after there Leoni and Giovanni Battista Lamperti to study singing. 1880 was in Varese as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor Opera debut. After a very successful tour of Italy and Spain in 1883, he sang at the royal opera houses of Munich, Berlin and Vienna, in addition to the municipal theaters in Hamburg, Leipzig and Cologne.

1888 married the soprano Lilli Lehmann Kalisch and traveled to London, where he appeared in Tristan and Isolde. After the end of this commitment Kalisch moved to the United States, where he sang four seasons at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and toured two seasons with Anton Seidl America.

After his return to Europe and a tour of Germany followed by engagements in Vienna, Budapest, Paris and London. He celebrated his biggest success, however, in Wiesbaden at the local festival, when he appeared before the royal family. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed by Ernst II of Saxe -Coburg -Gotha Kammersänger.