Fifty years since Fritz Wunderlich
mainThe German lyric tenor died in a domestic accident on 17 September 1966, at the age of 35.
This is what we lost.
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For me the best tenor ever and my all time hero!!!!
Sadly, I never heard him “live” but he is sublime in the HvK recordings of Die Schöpfung and the Missa Solemnis.
Unattainable
The greatest lyric tenor. He died one week before his Met debut.
Listening to him makes almost every other tenor sound ordinary
Except Bjorling…
On this we agree, Norman. As much as I love Wunderlich–and I have for decades–I always find myself returning to Bjorling. W was a wondrous example of lyric beauty and sublimity while B–to me, anyway–a force of nature.