Formes

Formes, KARL, bass singer, was born in 1810 at Mülheim, on the Rhine, and was for some years a verger before he made his début on the stage at Cologne, in 1842, as Sarastro in the Zauberflöte. He was engaged for a time in Vienna, and sang in Italian opera at Covent Garden until 1857, when he visited America, and entered on a comparatively wandering life, in spite of the possession of a voice that for volume, compass, and quality was one of the most magnificent ever heard. He died at San Francisco, 15th December 1889.—His brother, THEODOR, born in 1826, appeared first at Ofen in 1846, and was long one of the most noted tenor singers in Germany. He died in 1874.