There he sang in 1887 in the premiere of Viktor Nessler's opera Der Trompeter von Säkkingen, and on 25 January 1888 he played the role of Gunther in the American premiere of Wagner's Götterdämmerung.
His musically conservative, mock-Gothic, fairy-tale operas, notably Der Rattenfänger von Hameln (The Pied Piper of Hamelin) (1879) and Der Trompeter von Säkkingen (1884), based on the famous poem by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, were very popular in the 19th century.
Viktor Yushchenko | Viktor Orbán | Viktor Zubkov | Viktor Vasnetsov | Viktor Rydberg | Viktor Frankl | Viktor Tretiakov | Viktor Sukhorukov | Viktor von Lang | Viktor Krauss | Viktor Shklovsky | Viktor Schreckengost | Viktor Lazlo | Viktor Chernomyrdin | Viktor Bout | Viktor von Weizsäcker | Viktor Vekselberg | Viktor Tsoi | Viktor Ruban | Viktor Petrenko | Viktor Kozin | Viktor Knorre | Viktor Kalashnikov | Viktor Elm | Viktor de Kowa | Viktor Alksnis | Viktor Zolotov | Viktor Uspaskich | Viktor Suvorov | Viktor Shasherin |