Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1890-02-16 | Page 7 | Wilhelm Sedlmayer

WILHELM SEDLMAYER The Well Known Tenor Who Ilecently Died in Jfeiv Yorlc When the Barber of Bagdad was first sung at the Metropolitan Opera house in New York a few weeks ago the audience was charmed by the fine voice of the CadL Herr Wilhelm Sedhnayer sang the part and sang it well on that opening night but it i was the lat l part he ever sang Death had his hand on the cord that was to ring down the curtain cur-tain on his life at the moment when the stage manager touched the signal for tho drop t I fall on the last scene of the Barber of Bag dadHerr Herr Sedliaayer was not feeling well when ho went on the stage that night but true artist and faithful worker he did the work of the night conscientiously and well He even seemed t < put a touch of unusual richness rich-ness and feeling into his tones Tbe fact that his voice was never raised in song again gives this fact a peculiar significance His illness grew worse became serious and in less than L a week he died Herr Sedlmayer received his early training at the Conservatory of Music at Vienna h native city He played important lyric tenor parts at the Vienna Opera house but won his first great success in the comic opera of Lortzcing From Vienna he went t tho Court theatre I at Munich and hw since sung at all the principal opera houses of the continent His European engagement was at Hamburg where Mr Stanton eiigaged him to go t New York expressly t take the parts of Mime in the Nibelungenriug and David in Die Moistdsinger5 roles in which his success suc-cess will b pleasantly remembered by lovers of the opera In private life Her Sedknayer was amiable amia-ble and unassuming His wife to whom he was devoted survives him