Juan Luria

While in New York, he sang the roles of Pizarro, Kurwenal, Alberich and Gunther, the American premieres of some little remembered operas such as Diana von Solange (9 January 1891).

[3] Among other Metropolitan Opera appearances, he sang two Meyerbeer roles: De Nevers in Les Huguenots[4] and Count Oberthal in Le Prophète.

[5] He sang in the Berlin Theater des Westens, Brussels Théâtre de la Monnaie and the Dresden Hoftheater in 1884.

In Italy he sang under the name Giovanni Luria in Genoa and at La Scala in Milan, 1893–94, creating the first Italian Wotan.

His students included Käthe Heidersbach, Elfriede Marherr, Michael Bohnen and the tenor Gotthelf Pistor.