Wirl, Erik

- Elizabeth Forbes
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(b Ebensee, 1885; d Rottach-Egern am Tegernsee, Feb 15, 1954). Austrian tenor . He studied in Munich and made his début in 1906 at Bayreuth as the Young Sailor (Tristan und Isolde) and an Esquire (Parsifal). Engaged at Frankfurt from 1906 to 1922, he was the first German Pelléas (...