Gerhard Stolze
Gerhard Stolze ( born October 1, 1926 in Dessau, † March 11, 1979 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen ) was a German character tenor.
He studied in Dresden and made his debut there 1949. 1953 to 1961 he sang at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin but left shortly after completion of the construction of the wall and moved to Vienna. He was considered the best Wagner and Strauss character tenor of his generation, which he proved again and again, among others, by frequent guest appearances in Bayreuth ( 1951 ) and Salzburg ( 1959 ). With the Stuttgart State Opera, the Hamburg State Opera and the National Theatre Munich, he had many years of guest appearances. He has appeared at major opera houses ( Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, New York, etc.). Proud sang in the world premieres of operas Jakobowski and the Colonel of Giselher Klebe, The Government Inspector by Werner Egk and Oedipus the Tyrant of Carl Orff.
Proud numerous recordings testify to its very flexible voice that he could use both lyrically as well as dramatic, as well as of his great acting talent.
Gerhard Stolze died in 1979 at the age of 52 and was buried in Garmisch.
He was married in 1977 his second wife, the opera singer Gerda Prochaska. From his first years of marriage, with the painter Gabriele Proud born Gretschel come the daughters Lena and Frances, both actresses.
Auswahldiskografie
- With Georg Solti: The Ring of the Nibelung (as Mime in Siegfried ), Salome ( Herod ), Elektra (as Aegisthus ), The Magic Flute ( as Monostatos )
- With Herbert von Karajan: The Ring of the Nibelung (as Loge in Das Rheingold / Mime in Siegfried )
- With Hans Knappertsbusch: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (as David )
- With Eugen Jochum: Carmina Burana
- With Wolfgang Sawallisch: Tannhauser Bayreuther Festspiele 1962 ( as Walther von der Vogelweide )
- Tenor
- Opera singer
- Support of the National Prize of the GDR III. Class of Arts and Letters
- GDR citizens
- German
- Born in 1926
- Died in 1979
- Man