There he sang among others José in Carmen, Max in Der Freischütz, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Baron Lummer in Intermezzo by Richard Strauss, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Hans in Smetana's The Bartered Bride and Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia.
He sang with great success Danilo in The Merry Widow, the title hero in Paganini, Goethe in Friederike [de] and Armand in The Count of Luxembourg.
In addition, he was an extremely successful film actor and singer in the 1930s (Die Lindenwirtin,[2] (1930) with Käthe Dorsch, Der Bettelstudent, with Jarmila Novotná, Frasquita, with Heinz Rühmann and Le Postillon de Lonjumeau, with Leo Slezak).
In 1951 he played in the film The Dubarry, with Sári Barabás, and two years later he appeared on stage for the last time in the opening performance of the new Hamburg Operettenhaus in Lehár's Lustiger Witwe.
[3] He sang, in duet with the baritone Manfred Lewandowski, 1923-1928 cantor at the Friedenstempel in Berlin-Halensee and 1928-1938 chief cantor at the synagogue Lindenstraße in Berlin-Kreuzberg, the duet Der Tempel Brahmas strahlt from Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles[4] but also, accompanied by the NS Reich Orchestra and Choir, the patriotic song Mein Deutschland, du sollst du leben, du darf nicht untergeh'n.