doing so when Lotte Lorenz was able to make a phone call to the sister of Hermann Göring. The SS was ordered to leave their residence and not to bother the two women. Göring stated in a letter of 21 March 1943 that Lorenz was under his personal protection and that no action should be taken against him, his wife, or her mother. Max Lorenz died in Salzburg and is buried at the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna. Recordings Max Lorenz can be heard on CD as Tristan, as Walther von Stolzing, as Siegmund, and as Siegfried (in Götterdämmerung). References Notes Sources Harold Rosenthal and John Warrack, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, second edition, Oxford University Press, 1979. Further reading Walter Herrmann: Max Lorenz. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1976. External links 1901 births 1975 deaths German operatic tenors Heldentenors Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery German LGBT singers German gay musicians Gay singers 20th-century German male opera singers Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 20th-century LGBT people