May I take a moment to express my unbridled love for Fritz Wunderlich? I know it's not a radical disclosure for a confessed operaholic. Nonetheless, it feels good to declare it openly; and besides, ...

“Few singers would disagree with me, when I say that the greatest tragedy to strike the operatic profession since the end of the Second World War, was the early death of Fritz Wunderlich. Both vocally ...

It says something that an international career that lasted only seven years and ended in tragic circumstances half a century ago today should still be resonating. Yet, writing only a few short months ...

Wunderlich’s lyric tenor voice made him an ideal Mozartian but led him, too, into the Italian and lighter Wagnerian repertoire. He was also a noted Lieder singer. Despite his early death aged 35, ...

WQXR opens up its archives this summer with a new weekly series devoted to some of its most popular programs. Since WQXR has been around for more than 83 years, that’s a lot of historical radio to ...

(Fritz Wunderlich with Kurt Heinz Stolze at the piano; Nonesuch H-71211). A freshvoiced recording made by Wunderlich in 1957 when he was twentyseven. The piano sound is a bit mushy in the stereo ...

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November 4, 2010 • A new live recording by the great German lyric tenor has caught the ear of one adoring fan. Hear an example of Wunderlich's clear, firm, easily projected tone in an aria by Mozart.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Dying didn't do as much for Fritz Wunderlich's career as it did for that of Elvis (oddly, as the finest German tenor of the century had ...