Word: schoeffler
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...could not catch the fast flow of German words and wit found few arias to cling to. But connoisseurs found some puckish operatic humor to smile over. Sample: when one character asks, "Why not compose an opera on a mythological theme?" the Producer (sung by Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler) replies, to a melody from Strauss's 1912 opera, Ariadne auf Naxos, "But it's been done." Smiled Baritone Schoeffler: "The old man had fun when he wrote this...
Dresden-born Baritone Schoeffler has little taste for his usual role as an operatic "heavy." So far, he figures he has been stabbed or poisoned onstage at least 150 times. He would rather sing in such operas as Meistet-singer and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, where "everyone comes away happy...
...Schoeffler really had had his way, he would have been a conductor, the role he was studying 20 years ago in Dresden when his teacher told him he had a career-making voice. He got his first break in opera that same year in Dresden from Conductor Fritz Busch; he was still singing with the company on the dark day in March 1933 when Hitler's hoodlums broke up Busch's performance of Rigoletto. Soon after Busch left the country, Schoeffler went to Vienna, where he sang throughout the war. Since the war, engagements at opera houses from...
Paint & Poison. Married to an Englishwoman who works with the International Refugee Organization in Vienna ("a very important lady"), Schoeffler has homes in both England and Vienna. The Schoefflers' 17-year-old son Peter, a British subject, is studying economics at Oxford. He wants to be a singer too ("he has the same voice I do"), but papa Schoeffler is trying to say no-"This business of dressing up in a silly costume, putting on a wig and paint on the face and getting killed or poisoned or drunk every night, it is no good...
...Papa Schoeffler himself is in for a good deal more of it next season at the Met. Thus far, he is scheduled to sing a Ring cycle, The Flying Dutchman and the " wicked Pizarro in Beethoven's Fidelia, with Kirsten Flagstad...