Emil Fischer (bass)

[1] His parents were Friedrich and Caroline Fischer-Achten, both opera singers.

[2] He made his début in 1857 in Graz in Boieldieu's Jean de Paris.

The period from 1885 to 1891 at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, marks the culmination of his artistic triumphs.

Lilli Lehmann, Max Alvary, and Marianne Brandt performed there with him.

Fischer died in Hamburg at the beginning of World War I.

Fischer as Wotan at the 1889 New York premiere of Das Rheingold
Emil Fischer as Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Metropolitan Opera .