Helmut Krebs

Helmut Krebs ( born October 8, 1913 in Aachen, † August 30, 2007 in Berlin) was a German singer in the subject tenor and countertenor. He became known in operas and oratorios.

Life

Helmut Krebs was born in Aachen, and grew up in Dortmund. The high school he attended in Berlin. His operatic career began in 1937 at the Volksoper in Berlin, where he sang the Monostatos in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute. In 1938 he had to stop because of military service his career, which he then in 1945 continued with appearances in Dusseldorf. As early as 1949, he joined with baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Cancer in 1949 sang in the premiere of Carl Orff's Antigone at the Salzburg Festival under Ferenc Fricsay and at the premiere of Oedipus the Tyrant under Henry Hollreiser in Vienna. In 1954 he took over at the concert premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, the role of Aron.

Cancer was nearly 40 years at the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Worked at the Deutsche Oper cancer, among others in The Flood and Rosamunde Floris of Boris Blacher, in King Stag, The Young Lord and we reach the river by Hans Werner Henze. There he was in 1963 appointed chamber singer. From 1957, cancer has taught at the Musikhochschule Berlin. In 1966 he was a professor of singing at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt am Main.

Cancer occurred in 1987 as an ensemble member in retirement; However, he returned in Götz Friedrich 's production of Leoš Janáček's From the House of the Dead once again back on the stage of the Deutsche Oper.

Died at the age of 94, he was buried at St. Anne's Cemetery in Berlin- Dahlem.

Honors

• Berlin Art Prize (1952 )

• Tenor
• Kammersänger
• German
• Support of the Berlin Art Prize
• Born in 1913
• Died in 2007
• Man