The Austrian tenor Richard Tauber was born in Linz in 1891. He made his début in Chemnitz as Tamino in Mozart’s Magic Flute. In 1913 he became a member of the Dresden State Opera before joining the Vienna State Opera in 1926. He was especially popular in operetta and the composer Franz Lehár wrote many of his central rôles for him. This collection includes arias from no less than five operettas by Lehár as well as from many other popular works such as Rose Marie, Die Fledermaus and Die Zigeunerbaron.