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| After serving as an Air Corps pilot in World War II, he began voice study at the University of Alabama with William Steven, then at the New England Conservatory with Marie Sundelius and finally with Wally Kirsamer in Frankfurt am Main, with Luigi Ricci in Rome and with Max Lorenz in Munich. He debuted in 1951 with the New England Opera as Lenski, then sang Rodolfo for the Spoleto Festival in 1954. He sang at various German Opera Houses (1954-55 Kiel, 1955-59 State Theatre of Braunschweig [Brunswick]) until becoming a member of the Nationaltheater Mannheim. There he participated in the world premiere of P.Hindemith's Das lange Weihnachtsmahl. His Bayreuth career began in 1956 with the Steuermann, then (1969-70) Erik, (1968-70, 1974-75) Walther von Stolzing, (1968, 1973, 1984) Parsifal, (1967-68) Lohengrin, (1970-71, 1973-75, 1978) the young Siegfried, (1983) Siegfried in Götterdämmerung. 1984 for Walther in 'Meistersinger'. He was a guest at the Wiener Volksoper and at the State Opera of Hamburg (1958-73). At the Viennese State Opera (1963-77), he sang Steva in Jenufa and Sergej in Lady Macbeth of Mzensk. He sang regulary at the State Operas of Stuttgart and Munich and in Frankfurt am Main. AT Bregenz he sang in Auber's Fra Diavolo (1961) and in Stolz's Trauminsel. He also appeared in 1961 at the Teatro San Carlos Lisbon, 1966 with the festival of Aix-en-Provence (Bacchus), 1974 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He sang in Chicago in 1964, 1970 and 1973 and at the Grand Opéra Paris (Siegmund, 1971-72). His Covent Garden and La Scala debuts followed in 1975 as Siegfried. In April 1976 sang he debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Walther of Stolzing. Additional appearances included the Opera Houses of San Antonio, New Orleans, Houston and Pittsburgh; the Royal Opera Stockholm, the Opera Houses at Zurich, Geneva and Mexico City, Barcelona, Brussels, Bordeaux, Nice and Genoa. His career lasted into 1989, when he was heard in Mannheim as Captain Vere in Billy Budd. He sang the full Heldentenor repertoire (over 75 roles), including the Wagner heroes, Alvaro in La forza del destino, Herodes, Bacchus, the Cardinal in Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, Max in Freischütz, Hermann in Pique Dame and the Prince in Dvorak's Rusalka. Both his voice and his dramatic skills were greatly appreciated throughout. Recordings: BASF, RBM, Philips (Meistersinger), Accord (Iphigénie en TaurideLisbon, 1961), Melodram (Der fliegende Holländer Bayreuth 1956). |
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