Who's who in music and drama : an encyclopedia of biography of notable men and women in music and the drama . ights. Per-manent address: Globe Theatre, NewYork. DIPPEL, (Johann) Andreas — OperaSinger and Impresario. Born Cassel. Germany, Nov. 30. 1866,son of Friedrich and Marie (Espel)Dippel; ed. high school of his nativetown, where he was grad. 1882. Enter-ing the employ of a banking house atCassel, same year, he continued in that•occupation for five years, acquiring therudiments of a sound business andfinancial, ed. In the meanwhile he be-gan the study of the voice underMme. Zottmayr, of the
Who's who in music and drama : an encyclopedia of biography of notable men and women in music and the drama . ights. Per-manent address: Globe Theatre, NewYork. DIPPEL, (Johann) Andreas — OperaSinger and Impresario. Born Cassel. Germany, Nov. 30. 1866,son of Friedrich and Marie (Espel)Dippel; ed. high school of his nativetown, where he was grad. 1882. Enter-ing the employ of a banking house atCassel, same year, he continued in that•occupation for five years, acquiring therudiments of a sound business andfinancial, ed. In the meanwhile he be-gan the study of the voice underMme. Zottmayr, of the Royal Court,Cassel. Having decided to enter upona mus. career, he left his home in1887, going to Berlin, Milan andVienna, where he continued his studieswith such masters as Julius Hey, Al-berto Leoni and Johann Ress. Thisextensive mus. training, added to hisproficiency in four different languages,enabled him to sing all the leadingtenor parts in Italian, French and Ger-man operas with equal success. tiesecured an engagement at the and made his debut *nSept. 1887, as the Steerman in The. Olive Briscoe Dip WHOS WHO IN MUSIC AND DRAMA nix Flying Dutchman. While his engage-ment at this time lasted until 1892,he was granted leave of absence dur-ing the season of 1890-91 to sing atthe Metropolitan O. H., New York. HisAmerican debut was made Nov. 26,1900, in Franchettis Asrael, under theconductorship of Anton Seidl. Uponthe termination of his Bremen engage-ment he visited U. S. for a concert tour,during which he sang under AntonSeidl, Arthur Nikisch and TheodoreThomas. Returni-ng to Germany hesang at the Stadt, Breslau, dur-ing the season of 1892-93, and from1893 to 1898 he was mem. of the Im-perial Court Opera in Vienna. In 1898he returned to New York, where he re-sumed his connection with the Metro-politan Opera co., then under the man-agement of Maurice Grau, of which hewas a permanent mem. until 1909. Assuch he has taken part in all the trans-continental tours o
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