Anton van Rooy

AAbendlich strahlt
B(L Demuth)Furwahr es ist ein Abenteuer

Label: His Master's Voice
Catalogue number: D809
Genre: Opera
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #15350

Anton van Rooy was one of the foremost bass-baritones of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a Dutch singer celebrated for his Wotan at Bayreuth and Covent Garden. This HMV D809 disc pairs his 'Abendlich strahlt' from Wagner's Das Rheingold with a piece by L. Demuth on the reverse. Van Rooy's HMV recordings are seriously collected by Wagnerian enthusiasts.

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