Gustav Neidlinger

Gustav Neidlinger (March 21, 1910 – December 26, 1991) was a German bass-baritone, who was most famous for playing Wagner's "howling-and-spitting" villains. He was born in Mainz, studied in Frankfurt and debuted in 1931 in Mainz. His interpretation of the role of Alberich in Der Ring des Nibelungen was celebrated worldwide, and still is, through Sir George Solti's famous DECCA studio recording, and Karl Böhm's recorded performance from Bayreuth 1967, both of which have been mainstay recordings since the vinyl days. He sang at the Bayreuth Festival from 1952 until 1975, mainly Alberich, but also Klingsor from Parsifal, Kurwenal from Tristan und Isolde, Fritz Kothner from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and occasionally, Hans Sachs and Friedrich von Telramund. He died in Bad Ems.

Discography

• Bass solos in Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B Minor. Vienna 1959, Dir.: Hermann Scherchen (Deutsche Grammophon).
• Jules Massenet: Manon. 1950, Dir.: Wilhelm Schüchter (Myto).
• van Bett in Albert Lortzing: Zar und Zimmermann. Stuttgart 1952, Dir.: Ferdinand Leitner (Deutsche Grammophon).
• Ollendorf in Karl Millöcker: Der Bettelstudent, Dir.: Werner Schmidt-Bölcke.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro. Vienna, Dir.: Clemens Krauss (Preiser). He plays Doctor Bartolo.
• Masetto in W.A. Mozart: Don Giovanni. NDR Hamburg 1951, Dir.: Leopold Ludwig (Urania).
• Strolch in Carl Orff: Die Kluge. London 1956, Dir.: Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI).
• Richard Strauss: Daphne. NDR, Dir.: Arthur Grüber (Myto).
• Colonna in Richard Wagner: Rienzi. Stuttgart 1957, Dir.: Lovro von Matačić (Living Stage).
• Telramund in Richard Wagner: Lohengrin. La Scala 1965, Dir.: Wolfgang Sawallisch (Living Stage).
• Kurwenal in Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde. Bayreuth 1953, Dir.: Eugen Jochum (Melodram).
• Kurwenal, Holland Festival The Hague 1959, Dir.: Ferdinand Leitner (Myto).
• Kurwenal, Staatsoper Stuttgart 1973, Dir.: Carlos Kleiber (Living Stage).
• Kothner in Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg 1956, Dir.: Rudolf Kempe (EMI).
• Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Bayreuth 1957, Dir.: Clutyens (Walhall).
• Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Buenos Aires 1968, Dir.: Ferdinand Leitner (Living Stage).
• Alberich in Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. RAI 1953, Dir.: Wilhelm Furtwängler (EMI).
• Alberich in Der Ring des Nibelungen (Das Rheingold, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung). Bayreuth 1953, Dir.: Clemens Krauss (Gala); 1953, Dir.: Joseph Keilberth (Andromeda); 1955, Joseph Keilberth (Testament); Dir.:1956 und 1957, Dir.: Hans Knappertsbusch (Melodram); 1967 Dir.: Karl Böhm (Philips).
• Alberich, Ring. Vienna 1958, 1962, 1964. Dir.: Georg Solti (Decca).
• Alberich, Das Rheingold, 1952, Dir.: Wilhelm Schuchter (Gebhardt Records).
• Klingsor in Richard Wagner: Parsifal. Bayreuth 1954. Dir.: Hans Knappertsbusch (Melodram). Also, 1956, 1962, 1963, and 1964, all Knappertsbusch at Bayreuth; and 1953 conducted by Krauss.
• Klingsor in Parsifal, in studio, conducted by Solti. 1971 (Phillips).
• Amfortas in Parsifal. Grand Opera, Paris. March 26, 1954. Dir: Ferdinand Leitner. (Profil).
• Debussy - Pelleas et Melisande, sung in German. (Wissmann, Windgassen, Welitsch, Hagner Rec. 1948 (Stuttgart, broadcast) Dir. Wetzelsberger (Walhall Eternity)
• Beethoven - Fidelio (King, Jones, Greindl) Berlin 1970 Dir: Böhm (Deutsche Grammophone dvd)
• Franz von Suppe - Boccaccio (Glawitsch, Streich, Fiedler) recorded Oct-1949 & bonus Dec-1949 Dir. Schuchter and Marszalek (Membran)
• Carl Maria von Weber - Euryanthe (Eipperle, Windgassen, Kinasiewicz) recorded 8-Jan-1954 Dir. Leitner (Walhall Eternity)
• Mussorsky - Father Varlaam in Boris Godunov, sung in German by Welitsch, Hann, Moedl, Schock, Rothenberger from Hamburg, 1950 (Walhall)
• Can be seen on film/DVD in rehearsal as Alberich, also performing in the Choral Symphony under Klemperer, and playing Pizarro in a filmed Fidelio.

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