Hans Hotter (19 January 1909 – 6 December 2003) was a German operatic bass-baritone. He stood 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and his appearance was striking. His voice and diction were equally recognisable.
Alan Oke is a British tenor. Born in London and raised in Scotland, he studied both at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and with Hans Hotter in Munich.
The Bayreuth Festival (German: Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of stage works by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived and...
A Heldenbaritone, also known as dramatic bass-baritone or hoher bass (high bass), is a voice type in German opera, a specific dramatic baritone. "Heldenbaritone" (Ger. "Heroic baritone) is a fach (operatic voice type) that is usually associated with...
Between 1958 and 1965 the Decca record company made the first complete recording to be released of Richard Wagner's operatic tetralogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen ("The Nibelung's Ring"), comprising Das Rheingold ("The Rhinegold"), Die Walküre ("The...
Luciano Pavarotti (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed tenors of all time. He made numerous...
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, music instructor, and the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis...
Shenyang (Chinese: 沈洋; pinyin: Shěn Yáng; born March 20, 1984) is a Chinese bass-baritone singer. His repertoire encompasses operatic roles, chamber music and Lieder recitals. Shenyang was born in Tianjin, the son of professional musicians, but did...
Heart's Desire (German: Die Sehnsucht des Herzens) is a 1951 West German musical drama film directed by Paul Martin and starring Hans Hotter, Linda Caroll and Rainer Penkert. It is based on the novel D-Zug, 517 by the Austrian writer Maria Peteani....
Lulu (1929–35; premiered incomplete 1937, complete 1979) is an opera that Austrian composer Alban Berg created from Frank Wedekind's Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, 1904). Berg used twelve-tone technique amid...
