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| | Winkler Hermann | | tenore |  
| After training at the Hannover Conservatory under Martha Schiele, his career beegan with an engagement at the Hannover State Theater from 1949-1955 and regular appearances at the Bielefeld Municipal Theater from 1954-58, at the Zürich Opera House from 1958-60, and from 1959-86 as a member of the Cologne Opera company. He sang Augustin Moser in Meistersinger and the Sailor in Tristan at the Bayreuth Festival (1959-61, 1963-64) returning (1964-66) as Heinrich den Schreiber in Tannhäuser, (1965) as the Steersman in Der fliegende Holländer and (1976-77) as Parsifal. Guest appearances at the Frankfurt Opera House in 1964 as Lohengrin and as Florestan won him a contract with that house. He also guested in Brussels (1963), Rome (1968), Monte Carlo (1968), at the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires (1974), at the Paris Opéra (1981) and at Covent Garden (1984). Starting in 1972, he sang at the Munich Opera Festival, concentrating on his Mozart roles (Don Ottavio, Idomeneo). In 1976 he also appeared as Don Ottavio at the Salzburg Festival, where in 1981 he participated in the world premiere of Baal by F. Cerha, and in 1991 sang Idomeneo. His American debut was in Chicago (1980) as Don Ottavio, a role he also sang in 1981 at the German Opera House, Berlin. In 1985 in Zürich he sang the role of the Emperor in Die Frau ohne Schatten. Later, he added character roles to his wide stage repertoire. He was heard at La Scala in 1987 as Herod, in Bologna as Loge, and on the Italian Radio as Ägisth. From 1987-88, he appeared at the Teatro Real Madrid in both Wozzeck and Lulu. At the Komische Oper Berlin he sang the title role in the Offenbach operetta Bluebeard, in Zürich (1990) Peter Grimes and the Opera of Nice, the Drum Major in Wozzeck, in 1989 at the Marseilles Opera Ägisth, and in 1991 at the Hannover State Theater the title role in Pfitzner's Palestrina. He enjoyed no less success as an oratorio and lieder singer. Recordings: HMV-Electrola (Arabella), HMV (Elektra), Edition Schwann (Massimilla Doni by Othmar Schoeck), Intercord (Mozart's Coronation Mass), DGG (Idomeneo), Decca (Wozzeck), Wergo (Mathis der Maler). |
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