Arthur Endrèze

[2] Born Arthur E Kraeckmann, he studied agronomy at the University of Illinois, and sang for pleasure in his spare time.

[1] He came to the attention of the conductor Walter Damrosch who advised him to go to France to improve his singing; he did so, enrolling at the American conservatoire at Fontainebleau where he studied under Jean de Reszke.

[4] Endrèze created the title role in Guercoeur in 1931, the Conseiller Herzfeld in Maximilien (Darius Milhaud) in 1932, Prince d'Antioche in Un jardin sur l'Oronte in 1932, the Prince de Metternich in L'Aiglon in 1937 (Monte Carlo and Paris), and Comte Mosca in La Chartreuse de Parme in 1939.

[4] Arrested by the Germans in 1940 he managed to make his way back to the United States but returned to France after the war, and after retiring from the stage devoted himself to teaching.

[1] He sang Scarpia in the 1932 studio recording of extended excerpts from Tosca in French with forces of the Paris Opéra-Comique conducted by Gustave Cloëz and with Ninon Vallin in the title role, for Odéon.