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Alfred Poell
Alfred Poell was an Austrian operatic baritone. Poell was born in Linz, Austria and studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck and obtained his doctorate there. He practised for a time as a neck specialist. He then turned to vocal studies at the Vienna Music Academy with Philip Forsten and Joseph von Manowarda. He made his operatic debut at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf in 1929, where he sang for ten years and where he took part in the premiere of Ludwig Maurick's work Simplicius Simplicissimus, on 23 March 1938. He joined the Vienna State Opera in 1940, where he sang until the end of his career. He also became a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival and the Glyndebourne Festival, where he was especially admired for his Mozart singing. He made guest appearances at La Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House in London. the Palais Garnier in Paris and other major European stages. Besides Mozart roles, he performed in works such as Fidelio, Der Freischütz, Ariadne auf Naxos, Der Rosenkavalier, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Arabella, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Götterdämmerung, Palestrina, The Rape of Lucretia, Die Fledermaus, etc. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Poell) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
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Le nozze di Figaro / The Marriage of Figaro 2023
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Mozart : Le nozze di Figaro 2011
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Haydn: L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice (1951), Vol. 1 2010
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Haydn: L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice (1951), Vol. 2 2010
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Vol. 2 - Live Recording 1953 2010
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Bach: Messe en Si Minor [Mass in B minor], Vol. 1 2010
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Bach: Messe en Si Minor [Mass in B minor], Vol. 2 2010
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Wagner: Das Rheingold, Vol. 1 2010
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Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro 2010
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Weber: Der Freischütz 2008
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Vol. 1 - Live Recording 1953 Single2010
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