Reining, in the title role, and Max Lorenz, as Bacchus, deliver a tremendous love duet.
In his time he was not as widely appreciated as his contemporaries G黱ther Treptow, Max Lorenz or Ram髇 Vinay.
Max Lorenz can be heard on CD as Tristan, as Siegmund, and as Siegfried ( in " G鰐terd鋗merung " ).
The success was such that she was invited to sing at the Berlin Staatsoper in " Tristan und Isolde ", opposite Max Lorenz, in 1951.
Three months later a new production by Max Lorenz as Bacchus, Alda Noni as Zerbinetta, Irmgard Seefried as composer, Paul Sch鰂fler as Musiklehrer, Erich Kunz as Harlekin and Emmy Loose as Najade.
"Tenors " : Max Lorenz, Helge Rosvaenge, Torsten Ralf, Karl Erb, Leo Slezak, Walter Widdop, Rudolf Schock, Franz V鰈ker, Rudolf Laubenthal ( Siegfried ), Gotthelf Pistor ( Parsifal)
Singers who sang under his baton included : Max Lorenz, Christa Ludwig, Walther Ludwig, Martha M鰀l, Helge Rosvaenge, Heinrich Schlusnus, Karl Schmitt-Walter, Rita Streich, Ludwig Suthaus, Wolfgang Windgassen and Fritz Wunderlich,
After his school days in Pl鰊 and Ratzeburg, Gottfried von Einem went to Berlin in 1937, to study at the Max Lorenz, he started an employment as a r閜閠iteur at the Berlin State Opera, where in 1939 Herbert von Karajan became " Staatskapellmeister ".
His voice was not as heroic as pre-war Heldentenors such as Lauritz Melchior or his immediate predecessor Max Lorenz, but he used it with such skill and musicianship that he is generally regarded as the most accomplished Wagner tenor of the second half of the twentieth century.
Graf staged several operas for the Salzburg Festival : " Otello " ( 1951, with Wilhelm Furtw鋘gler conducting, 1952 with Mario Rossi conducting; both times with Ram髇 Vinay as Otello ), " The Marriage of Figaro " ( 1952, with Rudolf Moralt conducting, with Erich Kunz, Max Lorenz, Kurt B鰄me ), " Simon Boccanegra " ( 1961, with Gianandrea Gavazzeni conducting, with Tito Gobbi, Leyla Gencer, Giorgio Tozzi, Rolando Panerai ), and finally " La rappresentazione di anima e di corpo " by Emilio de'Cavalieri ( the production premiered in 1968 and was shown each year until 1973 ).