Karl Scheidemantel

Karl Scheidemantel (29 January 1859 – 26 June 1923) was a German baritone singer, and later an opera director.

Among his supporters were Bodo Borchers in Weimar, well known voice teacher Julius Stockhausen in Frankfurt, and composer Franz Liszt.

At the age of 25, he joined the ensemble of the Dresden Hofoper where he was named Kammersänger, "Chamber Singer to the Saxon Grand Duke" in 1884.

Notably, he created the role of Herr von Faninal in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier in 1911.

It was first used in his own new production at Dresden in June 1914, in which Richard Tauber first sang Don Ottavio.