Real name: Anton Weiler

Bariton opera singer from Cologne, Germany
* 07. Aug. 1894 in Cologne
+ 30. Jan 1970 in Bonn

Career:
- From 1919: Singing studies with Prof. Eduard Walter at the Cologne Music Conservatory, scholarship, master student
- engagements and guest performances:
1922 Debut in Zürich (as Ruggiero in Meyerbeer's "Jewess")
1923 Opera Magdeburg
1929 Awarded the title of Kammersänger by the Magdeburg City Council
1934-1938 Engagement Dortmund Opera, then Düsseldorf, Hanover, Essen, Mönchengladbach, Detmold, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Berlin, Basel
1945 f. Hameln, Mainz, Osnabrück
1946-1952 Theatre Dessau
1951 Professor at the State Academy of Music in Halle
1952 Cologne, Bonn

Roles in operas by:
Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Strauss, Peter Tschaikowski, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Johann Strauss, Bedrich Smetana, Carl Orff, Georges Bizet, Jacques Offenbach, Carl Maria von Weber, Modest Mussorgski, Pietro Mascagni, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and others.