Ernest Van Dyck or Van Dijck was a Belgian dramatic tenor who was closely identified with the Wagnerian repertoire.
Ernest Van Dyck, c. 1898 (Newberry Library, Chicago)
Van Dyck and Amalie Materna as Parsifal and Kundry at Bayreuth in 1889
Van Dyck as Lohengrin, 1895
Lohengrin, WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notabl
Ernest Van Dyck
…Paris he studied singing with Saint-Yves Bax before making his stage debut at the Théâtre Éden on 3 May 1887; the occasion marked the French premiere of Lohengrin. Intensive study with Felix Mottl followed before he appeared as Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival in 1888, with great success. The intensity of his…
Production of the Oslo Opera in 2015
Ludwig II of Bavaria portrayed as Lohengrin below a moon with Wagner's face. Brochure in Der Floh, 1885.
Lohengrin (tenore), costume design for Lohengrin Act I, III (1888).
Johanna Jachmann-Wagner as Ortrud, ca. 1860