Gerhard Pechner(1903-1969)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
German baritone. He sang at the Charlottenburg opera house in Berlin
from 1924, notably as Don Pasquale with Maria Ivogün (a beautiful
Hungarian opera singer) and Karl Erb. Mr. Pechner was forced to leave
his home country in 1933 because of his personal feelings. He left for
Prague, Czechoslavakia and then went on to Buenos Aires, Argentina. His
American debut was at the San Francisco, California opera house in 1940
as Mozart's Bartolo and in 1941 joined the Metropolitan in New York
City. Because of WWII he also recorded, of all things, "Lili
Marlene".