WFranz Michael Bohnen was a German bass baritone opera singer and actor.
WOleg Bryjak was a Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer. Born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, into an ethnic Ukrainian family, he moved to Germany in 1991 to join the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. From 1996 until his death, he was a soloist with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.
WAnnelies Burmeister was a German contralto and actress.
WMax Hansen , also known as 'The Little Caruso', was a Danish singer, cabaret artist, actor, and comedian.
WFranz Xaver Hauser was a singer, voice teacher, and music manuscript collector.
WHermann Horner was an Austrian-Hungarian operatic bass-baritone. He performed on numerous stages in Germany and Czechoslovakia and was a guest at the Bayreuth Festival. He was murdered by the NS regime.
WHans Hotter was a German operatic bass-baritone. He stood 6 ft 4 in and his appearance was striking. His voice and diction were equally recognisable.
WMarek Kalbus is a German opera and concert singer. He has the voice of a typical basso cantante and sings bass and bass-baritone roles.
WAugust Kindermann was a German bass-baritone singer and regisseur, particularly noted for his performances in the operas of Richard Wagner.
WWaldemar Klingelhöfer was an SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) and convicted war criminal.
WJochen Kowalski is a German alto or mezzo countertenor, noted for his very rich timbre.
WHans Jörg Mammel is a German tenor in opera and concert.
WOttilie Metzger-Lattermann also formerly Ottilie Metzger-Froitzheim was a German contralto who was a famous performer of works by Wagner during the 1910s, and who after her retirement was murdered in Auschwitz.
WSiegmund Nimsgern is a German bass-baritone, born in Sankt Wendel, Saarland, Germany.
WRosa Olitzka was a German-born contralto singer. She sang with the Metropolitan Opera from 1895 to 1901, and with the Chicago Opera from 1910 to 1911.
WMaria Olszewska was a German operatic contralto.
WKarl Perron, born Karl Pergamenter and also known as Carl Perron, was a German bass-baritone. A Kammersänger of the Dresden State Opera, he created leading roles in three operas by Richard Strauss – Jochanaan in Salome, Orest in Elektra, and Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier.
WFrancilla Pixis was a German mezzo-soprano. She was born Franziska Helma Göhringer in Lichtenthal near Baden-Baden. She was initially trained by the pianist and composer Johann Peter Pixis who adopted her when she was 15 but also studied with Henriette Sontag and Ferdinando Paer. She made her concert debut in London in 1833 and her operatic debut in 1834 in Karlsruhe. She subsequently sang in Vienna, Paris, London, and Italy both on the opera stage and in successful concert tours with her adoptive father. In Italy she made her La Scala debut in 1838 in the title role of Rossini's La Cenerentola and also sang at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. In 1840 she created the title role in Giovanni Pacini's Saffo, which he wrote expressly for her voice. Pixis married a Sicilian nobleman, Giovanni di Sant'Onofrio del Castillo, in 1843 and retired from the stage three years later. Their son, Ugo di Sant'Onofrio del Castillo, served in the Italian Parliament, first in the Chamber of Deputies from 1888 until 1913 and later in the Senate.
WElisabeth Röckel was a German soprano opera singer and the wife of the composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
WMagda Spiegel (1887–1944) was a German contralto who was a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble and was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The baritone Richard Breitenfeld, also of the Frankfurt Opera, shared the same fate.
WVesselin Stoykov is a Bulgarian-German opera singer and manager, from Bulgarian origin.
WThérèse Carolina Johanne Alexandra Tietjens was a leading opera and oratorio soprano. She made her career chiefly in London during the 1860s and 1870s, but her sequence of musical triumphs in the British capital was terminated by cancer.
WFelicita Vestvali, also known as Felicità von Vestvali, was an opera singer and actress famous in Europe and the United States.
WGenovefa Weber, née Brenner was a German opera singer and actress. She was born in Oberdorf, Allgäu, Germany and died in Salzburg, Austria. She was the mother of composer Carl Maria von Weber.
WOrtrun Wenkel is a German operatic contralto. She notably portrayed the role of Erda in the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring in 1976 and was awarded a Grammy Award as a Principal Soloist in 1983.
WLuise del Zopp, birth name Aloisia Theresia Johanna Luksch, also Louise Lingg, was a German actress, opera singer and screenwriter.