Rudolf Lustig

Rudolf Lustig was an Austrian tenor who studied with Hermine Geyer and at the Vienna Music Academy, and made his debut in 1933 at the Weimar National Theatre in the title role of Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann. He stayed at Weimar until 1949, his voice growing into the heroic Wagner repertoire, took part in the 1937 premiere of Casimir von Pászthory's Die Prinzessin und der Schweinehirt, and sang one of the four Minnesingers in the 1940 revision of Strauss's Guntram. After guest appearances in Berlin he was engaged at the Vienna State Opera from 1950 to 1954, singing Tristan to Birgit Nilsson's Isolde, then at the Aachen municipal theatre from 1954 to 1967 alongside his wife, the soprano Anna Palo. He sang Loge at the Bayreuth Festival in 1954 and 1955, and Erik in Der fliegende Holländer there in 1955.