Herman Jadlowker & Lilly Hafgren-Waag

Lily Hafgren- Waag as Ariadne and Herman Jadlowker as Bacchus(CREATOR) in "Ariadne auf Naxos" Richard Strauss


Lily Hafgren- Waag
1884-1965
Swedish Soprano
Studied in Frankfurt and Milan on the advise of Seigfried Wagner ,Debut 1908 at Bayreuth as Freia in 'Das Rheingold".She was at the opera in Mannheim 1908-1912 this was followed by 6 years at the Hofoper in BerlinHer repertory ranged from Brunnhilde and Isolde to Pamina and the Countess Almaviva , Tosca , Carmen and Charlotte in 'Werther".She travelled all over Europe and performed Brunnhilde at La Scala 1925,1926 & 1930.

Herman (Hermann) Jadlowker
1877-1953
Latvian Tenor
Studied in Vienna with Josef Gänsbacher. Debut 1899 at Cologne in Kreutzer's "Nachtlager von Granada". Emperor William (Kaiser Wilhelm II) heard him and was so impressed that he offered the tenor a five-year contract at the Royal Opera in Berlin. Sang also in Stuttgart, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Vienna, Lemberg, Prague, Budapest and Boston during the course of his career.In 1910 and 1912, he appeared at the New York Metropolitan Opera .During the 1920s, he sang increasingly on the concert platform and, in 1929, he was chosen to be chief cantor at the Riga synagogue. Jadlowker subsequently became a voice teacher at the Riga Conservatory before emigrating to Palestine with his wife in 1938. He taught in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, dying in the latter city at the age of 75.