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Aloys Pennarini, also spelled Alois Pennarini, (born Aloys Federler; June 21, 1870 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary – June 23, 1927 in Liberec, Czechoslovakia), was an opera singer (tenor), opera director and film actor.
Singing career
- Debut 1893 Stadttheater Preßburg (Bratislava) as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni)
- 1895-1896 Stadttheater Olmütz (Olomouc)
- 1896-1897 Stadttheater Elberfeld.
- 1898-1900 Stadttheater Graz now in Wagner roles
- 1900-1913 Stadttheater Hamburg
- 1904 Savage Opera Company in North America - Parsifal tour
Tour to London Covent Garden Opera, Amsterdam and Haag, also Philadelphia, United States, Chestnut Street Opera House
His Tenor voice on record ODEON-Platten (Hamburg) 1905-1908 Teachers: Joseph Gansbacher, Johannes Ress in Vienna.
Directing career
- 1913 -1920 director from the Nürnberg Stadttheater also as a singer
- 1920 director Stadttheater von Reichenberg (Liberec) in Czechoslovakia
Acting career
Performed in the silent film, "Banditen" Berlin, Germany Date: 1920 1921 Directed by: Max Agerty Actors: Alois Pennarini as Santanello - head of the bandits, Karl Gepper,Vera Schreiber, Erner Hübsch, Harry Ensor, Melitta Klefer, Werner Stein, Emil Stammer, Juana del Soto, Anneliese Körner Production: Singing film GmbH, Berlin
Performed in the silent film, “Heinrich Heines Erste Liebe” Hamburg, Germany Date: January 25, 1922 Directed by: Eva Christa Actors: Margarete Lanner, Vera Nordegg, Peter Kreuder, Alois Pennarini as Heinrich Heine. Production: Vera Filmwerke AG, Hamburg
Performed in the silent film, “Mabel Und Ihre Freier” Hamburg, Germany Date: August 26, 1922 Directed by: Eva Christa Actors: Mabel Und Ihre Freier, Emil von Dollen, Alois Pennarini as a Chamber singer, Arnold Risch, Phylax Luedecke, Friedrich Kurth, Vera Nordegg, Aida Montes, Peter Kreuder, Wilhelmine They Production: Vera Filmwerke AG, Hamburg
Alois Pennarini was once married to the soprano Ella Appelt
Married Clary Antoniette Nisser on May 19, 1909 and had four children: Heinz, Toni-Juliana, Isolde and Mathias
Married Paula Weidenslaufer and moved with her to Liberec