Leader, MONTAGUE BREARLEY
Conducted by MARK LUBBOCK
RICHARD TAUBER (tenor)
It is over a year since Richard Tauber was on the air. This evening in a unique programme he is to be heard as singer, composer, and conductor.
While still in his teens Tauber trained as a conductor at the Frankfurt Conservatorium, and during an illness composed his first opera. At Freiburg, when he was nineteen, Professor Karl Beines discovered his ' golden voice'. In 1913 he made his debut as Tamino in The Magic Flute, and was immediately engaged for the Dresden State Opera, where he remained for ten years. In 1915 he sang for the first time in Berlin, ' Bacchus ' in Richard Strauss 's Ariadne. He was the first German singer to appear after the war in Stockholm and with the Opéra in Paris.
In 1933 he made a concert tour of nine countries. His recorded voice must have been heard all over the world. His first British film was Blossom Time. This last winter he has been singing at the Vienna Opera House.
It is as an outstanding interpreter of Lehar's works that Tauber is most famous : Paganini, Zarewitsch, Friederike, The Land of Smiles (which he has sung over 700 times).
Listeners are to hear tonight the great tenor to whom Lehar dedicated ' You are my heart's delight'. Conducted by THE COMPOSER