Georg Anthes

Georg Anthes can be heard on a number of Mapleson Cylinders

Mediafire link for Mapleson cylinders

(These are zip files – left click the link, download the files, then unzip when downloaded)

As the LP notes, this is not high-fidelity sound. This is IRCC LP7006, issued in 1955, containing transfers of a number of Mapleson Cylinders, recorded live from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House from 1901 to 1903.

Anthes appears on the following tracks:

5. Wagner – Tristan und Isolde – Love Duet Act 2 (two fragments)
Lillian Nordica, soprano; Georg Anthes, tenor; Ernestine Schumann-Heink, contralto. Alfred Hertz, conductor
9/2/1903

6. Wagner – Lohengrin – Mein Held, in dem muss vergeh’n (Act 2)
Johanna Gadski; soprano; Georg Anthes, tenor. Alfred Hertz, conductor
7/2/1903

9. Wagner – Siegfried – O Siegfried (Act 3)
Lillian Nordica, soprano; Georg Anthes, tenor. Alfred Hertz, conductor
19/1/1903

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