Max Lorenz (tenor)

Audiences at the Salzburg Festival also heard him, and he created roles in such post-World War II works as Gottfried von Einem’s Der Prozess (Josef K, 1953), Rolf Liebermann’s Penelope (1954) and Rudolf Wagner-Régeny’s Das Bergwerk zu Falun (1961).

Wagner answered that in that case she might as well close the Festival because, without Lorenz, "Bayreuth can't be done.

At the last moment they were saved when Lotte Lorenz called the sister of Hermann Göring.

Göring stated in a letter of 21 March 1943 that Lorenz was under his personal protection and that no action should be taken against him, his wife, or her mother.

Tristan,[4][5][6][7][8] as Walther von Stolzing, as Siegmund, Siegfried (in Götterdämmerung), and as Tenor/Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos.