Michael Kraus (born 17 January 1957
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Vita; Offizielle Internetpräsenz der Wiener Volksoper. Retrieved 15 July 2021) is an Austrian operatic
baritone.
Life
Early years
Born in Vienna, Kraus first studied acting,
historiography
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and
Romance studies
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and worked for several years as an actor at "Die Komödianten" theatre in Vienna, where he was also responsible as director for the Austrian premiere of
Herbert Achternbusch
Herbert Achternbusch ( Schild; 23 November 1938 – 10 January 2022) was a German film director, writer and painter. He began as a writer of avant-garde prose, such as the novel ''Die Alexanderschlacht'', before turning to low-budget films. He h ...
's ''Ella'' (1979). He also studied singing at the
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817.
With a student body of over three thousa ...
with
Kammersänger
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(KS)
Otto Edelmann and KS
Josef Greindl
Josef Greindl (23 December 1912 - 16 April 1993) was a German operatic bass, remembered mainly for his performances of Wagnerian roles at Bayreuth beginning in 1943.
Josef Greindl was born in Munich and studied at the Munich Music Academy with Pa ...
and the
University of Music and Performing Arts Munich
The University of Music and Performing Arts Munich (german: Hochschule für Musik und Theater München), also known as the Munich Conservatory, is a performing arts conservatory in Munich, Germany. The main building it currently occupies is ...
with
Hanno Blaschke. He won several prizes at singing competitions (among others the , Vienna 1980, and the International Lieder Competition, Vienna 1982). Afterwards he finally decided to become a singer. He had his first stage engagements as a beginner at the
Theater Aachen
Theater Aachen is a theatre in Aachen, Germany. It is the principal venue in that city for operas, musical theatre and plays. It is the home of the Aachen Symphony Orchestra. The original project was by Johann Peter Cremer, later altered by Ka ...
(1981–1984) and at the
Theater Ulm (1984–1987).
In 1987, Kraus made his debut at the
Vienna Volksoper
The Vienna Volksoper (''Volksoper'' or ''Vienna People's Opera'') is an opera house in Vienna, Austria. It produces three hundred performances of twenty-five German language productions of opera, operetta, musicals, and ballet, during an annual s ...
as Guglielmo in ''
Così fan tutte''. From 1988 to 1992, he was a permanent ensemble member at the house and continued to appear regularly as a guest thereafter. In the course of the years he impersonated there as leading roles among others Papageno in ''
The Magic Flute
''The Magic Flute'' (German: , ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a '' Singspiel'', a popular form during the time it was written that in ...
'', Guglielmo in ''Così fan tutte'', Leporello and the title role in ''
Don Giovanni'', Falke and Eisenstein in ''
Die Fledermaus
' (, ''The Flittermouse'' or ''The Bat'', sometimes called ''The Revenge of the Bat'') is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874.
Background
The original li ...
'', Sixtus Beckmesser in ''
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'', the Music Teacher in ''
Ariadne auf Naxos
(''Ariadne on Naxos''), Op. 60, is a 1912 opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The opera's unusual combination of elements of low commedia dell'arte with those of high opera seria points up one of the work's ...
'' (new production, premiere: June 2009) and the title role in ''
Gianni Schicchi
() is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18. The libretto is based on an incident mentioned in Dante's ''Divine Comedy''. The work is the third and final part of Pucci ...
'' (2012/13 season). In the 1991/92 season he sang the role of the poacher Haraschta in Janáček's opera ''
The Cunning Little Vixen
''The Cunning Little Vixen'' (original title ''Příhody lišky Bystroušky'' or ''Tales of Vixen Sharp-Ears'' in English), is a three-act Czech-language opera by Leoš Janáček completed in 1923 to a libretto the composer himself adapted from a ...
'' at the Vienna Volksoper. He also sang there in operettas, among others in the 1988/89 season the landlord Benozzo in ''
Gasparone
''Gasparone'' is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker to a German libretto by Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée. The libretto was later revised by and . An amusing feature of the work is that the title character never appears and acts ...
'' and in the 1989/90 season Fassbinder Lotteringhi in a new production of ''
Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (, , ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was some ...
''.
In the 1991/92 season, he also sang at the
Vienna State Opera
The Vienna State Opera (, ) is an opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road. It was built from 1861 to 1869 following plans by August ...
. In the following years, Papageno in particular became his international starring role.
Guest appearances
In 1988, Kraus sang the role of Leporello in a new production of Mozart's ''
Don Giovanni'' under
Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Amsterdam. In later ones he made guest appearances there as Stolzus in the ''
Die Soldaten
' (''The Soldiers'') is a four-act opera in German by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, based on the 1776 play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. In a letter accompanying his newly printed play (23 July 1776, aged 24) that he sent to his best friend, the Ge ...
'' by
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Bernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March 1918 – 10 August 1970) was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera ''Die Soldaten'', which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. As a ...
(2003 and 2010), as Franz/Fritz in ''
Die tote Stadt
' (German for ''The Dead City''), Op. 12, is an opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold set to a libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the composer and his father, Julius Korngold. It is based on the 1892 novel '' Bruges-la-Mo ...
'' (2005) as well as Faninal in ''
Der Rosenkavalier
(''The Knight of the Rose'' or ''The Rose-Bearer''), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel ''Les amours du chevalier de Faublas'' ...
'' (2011).
In the summer of 1988 he made a guest appearance at the
Seefestspiele Mörbisch as Pappacoda in the operetta ''
A Night in Venice''. In 1991, he made his US debut at the
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera (SFO) is an American opera company founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola (1881–1953) based in San Francisco, California.
History
Gaetano Merola (1923–1953)
Merola's road to prominence in the Bay Area began in 1906 when h ...
with the role of Papageno.
In 1993, he debuted at
La Scala as Scherasmin in ''
Oberon
Oberon () is a king of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature. He is best known as a character in William Shakespeare's play ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', in which he is King of the Fairies and spouse of Titania, Queen of the Fairi ...
'', where he later also appeared in ''
Der Freischütz
' ( J. 277, Op. 77 ''The Marksman'' or ''The Freeshooter'') is a German opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind, based on a story by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun from their 18 ...
'' (2017) and ''
Die Fledermaus
' (, ''The Flittermouse'' or ''The Bat'', sometimes called ''The Revenge of the Bat'') is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874.
Background
The original li ...
'' (2018).
From 1994, Kraus was a regular guest at the
Vlaamse Opera The Vlaamse Opera (Flemish Opera) is an opera company in Belgium directed by Jan Vandenhouwe which operates in two different opera houses in two Flemish cities, the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp at Van Ertbornstraat 8 and the Vlaamse Opera Ghent at Schouwbu ...
in Antwerp and Ghent, where he first enjoyed great success, among others, in the title role of Britten's opera ''
Billy Budd'' (1994 and 1997). In the following years, he sang Fritz in ''
The Dead City'' (1995), Dandini in ''
La Cenerentola
' ('' Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant'') is an operatic ''dramma giocoso'' in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the libretti written by Charles-Guillaume Étienne for the opera ''Cendrillon'' ...
'' (1999), Beckmesser in ''
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'' (2002), Don Alfonso in ''
Così fan tutte'' (2003) and Jaroslav Prus in ''
Věc Makropulos
''Věc Makropulos'' is a Czech play written by Karel Čapek. Its title—literally ''The Makropulos Thing''—has been variously rendered in English as ''The Makropulos Affair'', ''The Makropulos Case'', or ''The Makropulos Secret'' (Čapek's o ...
'' (2016).
From 2000, Kraus was also a permanent guest at the
Komische Oper Berlin
The Komische Oper Berlin is a German opera company based in Berlin. The company produces opera, operetta and musicals.
The opera house is located on Behrenstraße, just a few steps from Unter den Linden. Since 2004, the Komische Oper Berlin, al ...
for several years (including Lescaut in ''
Manon Lescaut
''The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut'' ( ) is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of ''Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité'' (''Memoirs and Adventures of a Ma ...
'', Enrico Ashton in ''
Lucia di Lammermoor
''Lucia di Lammermoor'' () is a (tragic opera) in three acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian-language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's 1819 historical novel '' The Bride of Lammermoo ...
'', Marcello in ''
La Bohème
''La bohème'' (; ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions '' quadri'', '' tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giusep ...
'', Mercutio in ''
Roméo et Juliette''). In 2000, he made his role debut as Conte di Luna in Verdi's opera ''
Il trovatore
''Il trovatore'' ('The Troubadour') is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play ''El trovador'' (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was García Gutiérrez's mos ...
'' in concert performances in Zagreb and Ljubljana. In the opening premiere of the 2000/01 season, he sang the title role in the world premiere of the opera ''Don Quixote en Barcelona'' by
José Luis Turina at the
Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona.
In the 2004/05 season, Kraus sang the double role of Frank/Fritz in a new production of the opera ''Die tote Stadt'' at
De Nederlandse Opera
The Dutch National Opera (DNO; formerly De Nederlandse Opera, now De Nationale Opera in Dutch) is a Dutch opera company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Its present home base is the Dutch National Opera & Ballet housed in the Stopera building, a m ...
in Amsterdam (conductor:
Ingo Metzmacher
Ingo Metzmacher (born 10 November 1957 in Hanover) is a German conductor and artistic director of the festival KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hanover.
Life
Ingo Metzmacher is the son of the cellist Rudolf Metzmacher and the research biol ...
, director:
Willy Decker
Willy Decker (born 1950) is a German theatre director, particularly known for his opera productions. He staged the world premieres of Hans Werner Henze's ''Pollicino'' (Montepulciano, 1980), Antonio Bibalo's ''Macbeth'' (Oslo, 1990), and Aribert ...
).
In the 2009/10 season, he sang the role of Don Carlo di Vargas in ''
La forza del destino'' at the
Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin. In November 2010 he took on the role of Stolzius in ''die Soldaten'' at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam (musical director:
Hartmut Haenchen
Hartmut Haenchen (born 21 March 1943) is a German conductor, known as a specialist for the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and for conducting operas in the leading opera houses of the world.
Career
Born in Dresden, Haenchen began his music ...
; director: Willy Decker). In the 2011/12 season, he sang Eisenstein in the operetta ''Die Fledermaus'' at the
Oper Frankfurt
The Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt Opera) is a German opera company based in Frankfurt.
Opera in Frankfurt am Main has a long tradition, with many world premieres such as Franz Shrek's ''Der ferne Klang'' in 1912, '' Fennimore und Gerda'' by Frede ...
. In March/April 2012, he sang the role of Schlachter in the
premiere of ''Rumor'', the new opera by
Christian Jost (director: ).
In 2012/13 he also made guest appearances at the
Berlin State Opera
The (), also known as the Berlin State Opera (german: Staatsoper Berlin), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany. The opera house was built by order of Prussian king Frederick the Great from ...
(among others as Faninal under Sir
Simon Rattle). At the
Oper Leipzig
The Leipzig Opera (in German: ) is an opera house and opera company located at the Augustusplatz and the Inner City Ring Road at its east side in Leipzig's district Mitte, Germany.
History
Performances of opera in Leipzig trace back to Singsp ...
, he made his role debut in the 2012/13 season as Donner in ''
Das Rheingold
''Das Rheingold'' (; ''The Rhinegold''), WWV 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's '' Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (English: ''The Ring of the Nibelung''). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National ...
'' under the musical direction of
Ulf Schirmer
Ulf Schirmer (born 1959) is a German conductor and opera house administrator.
Born in Eschenhausen, Lower Saxony, Schirmer studied at the Bremen Conservatory, and also at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, with György Ligeti, Christ ...
. In 2013, Kraus made his debut at the
Zurich Opera House (''
die Soldaten
' (''The Soldiers'') is a four-act opera in German by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, based on the 1776 play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. In a letter accompanying his newly printed play (23 July 1776, aged 24) that he sent to his best friend, the Ge ...
''), where he also sang the Heerrufer in ''
Lohengrin
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'' and Orest in ''
Elektra''.
In 2014, he made his debut at the
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an annual opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.
History
Under the supervision of the Christie family, the festival has been held annually since 1934, ...
as Faninal, which he repeated there in 2018. In 2015, he sang Thoas in ''
Iphigénie en Tauride'' at the
Salzburger Pfingst- und Sommerfestspiele. This was followed in 2016 by debuts at the Paris
Opéra Bastille
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(''
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'') and the
Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London. The large building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site. It is the home of The Royal Ope ...
London (''
Tannhäuser
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'') and at the
Semperoper
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Dresden (as Donner in ''Das Rheingold''). Since 2017, Kraus has participated in a new production of ''
Der Ring des Nibelungen
(''The Ring of the Nibelung''), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works are based loosely on characters from Germanic heroic legend, namely Norse legendary sagas and the '' Nibe ...
'' at the
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein (German Opera on the Rhine) is an opera company based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. The opera also has an associated classical ballet company. Axel Kober has been its Music Director since 2009. The resident orchestra, t ...
in Düsseldorf, where he sings Alberich for the first time.
Kraus has made further guest appearances at the Hamburg and Munich State Operas, the
Grand Théâtre de Genève, the
Finnish National Opera and Ballet
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, the
Teatro Massimo
The Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele is an opera house and opera company located on the Piazza Verdi in Palermo, Sicily. It was dedicated to King Victor Emanuel II.
It is the biggest in Italy, and one of the largest of Europe (at the time of its i ...
in
Palermo and the
Teatro Regio di Torino
The Teatro Regio (Royal Theatre) is a prominent opera house and opera company in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. Its season runs from October to June with the presentation of eight or nine operas given from five to twelve performances of each.
Several bu ...
, among others. He has sung in France, Hungary, Sweden, Greece (1991 in Athens), Israel, Brazil, Chile and Japan. He has also performed in concert and recital.
Repertoire and recordings
Kraus initially sang lyric baritone roles with a focus on Mozart (Papageno, Guglielmo, Don Giovanni). In the course of his career, his voice changed over the course of his career from cavalier baritone (such as Valentin in ''
Faust
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust ( 1480–1540).
The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroa ...
'', Conte di Luna in ''
Il Trovatore
''Il trovatore'' ('The Troubadour') is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play ''El trovador'' (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was García Gutiérrez's mos ...
'', Don Carlos di Vargas in ''
La forza del destino'' or Germont in ''
La Traviata'') to character baritone (among others, Jago in ''
La Traviata''). Iago in ''
Otello'').
In 1990, Kraus sang Papageno in a recording of Mozart's ''
The Magic Flute
''The Magic Flute'' (German: , ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a '' Singspiel'', a popular form during the time it was written that in ...
'' with the
Vienna Philharmonic
The Vienna Philharmonic (VPO; german: Wiener Philharmoniker, links=no) is an orchestra that was founded in 1842 and is considered to be one of the finest in the world.
The Vienna Philharmonic is based at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. It ...
under the conduct of Sir
Georg Solti (
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* Decca Studios, a recording facility in W ...
). He also appeared several times in the Decca series Entartete Musik in ''
Jonny spielt auf
''Jonny spielt auf'' (''Jonny Strikes Up''), Op. 45, is a German-language with words and music by Austrian composer Ernst Krenek about a jazz violinist. He dedicated the opera to his second wife, Berta Herrmann.[Der gewaltige Hahnrei
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'' by
Berthold Goldschmidt
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(Cannes Classic Award nomination), in the title role of ''
The Emperor of Atlantis'' by
Viktor Ullmann
Viktor Ullmann (1 January 1898, in Teschen – 18 October 1944, in KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau) was a Silesia-born Austrian composer, conductor and pianist.
Biography
Viktor Ullmann was born on 1 January 1898 in Těšín (Teschen), which belonged ...
, ''
Die Vögel'' by
Walter Braunfels
Walter Braunfels (; 19 December 1882 – 19 March 1954) was a German composer, pianist, and music educator.
Life
Walter Braunfels was born in Frankfurt. His first music teacher was his mother, the great-niece of the composer Louis Spohr. He c ...
(1998 nomination for the
Grammy Award
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), in ''The Betrothal in a Dream'' by
Hans Krása
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Life
Hans Krása was born in Prague, the son of Anna ...
and ''Requiem Ebraico'' by
Erich Zeisl Erich Zeisl (May 18, 1905 – February 18, 1959) (often spelled Eric) was an Austrian-born American composer.
Life and music
Born to a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, then capital of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Zeisl was the son of Kamilla ...
.
Other complete opera recordings with Michael Kraus include ''
Turandot
''Turandot'' (; see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, posthumously completed by Franco Alfano in 1926, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. ''Turandot'' best-known aria is " Nessun dorma", ...
'' by
Ferruccio Busoni under
Kent Nagano
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(Virgin Classics), ''
Der Rosenkavalier
(''The Knight of the Rose'' or ''The Rose-Bearer''), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It is loosely adapted from the novel ''Les amours du chevalier de Faublas'' ...
'' under
Bernard Haitink
Bernard Johan Herman Haitink (; 4 March 1929 – 21 October 2021) was a Dutch conductor and violinist. He was the principal conductor of several international orchestras, beginning with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1961. He moved to Lon ...
(EMI) and ''
Die Harmonie der Welt
''Die Harmonie der Welt'' (''The Harmony of the World'') is an opera in five acts by Paul Hindemith. The German libretto was by the composer.
The title of the opera is taken from ''Harmonices Mundi'' by the astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630 ...
'' under
Marek Janowski
Marek Janowski (born 18 February 1939 in Warsaw) is a Polish-born German conductor. He is currently chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic.
Childhood
Janowski grew up in Wuppertal, near Cologne, after his mother traveled there at the st ...
(Wergo).
In addition to his performances as a singer, Kraus has also worked as an
opera director
Crossbreed is an American industrial metal band from Clearwater, Florida, United States, formed in 1996. They were signed with Artemis Records before being dropped from the label in 2003. The band released two EPs and three full-length albums b ...
and translator of opera libretti (Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy and ''
Elisir d'amore
''L'elisir d'amore'' (''The Elixir of Love'', ) is a ' (opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian language, Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's ' (1831). T ...
'' by Donizetti). In 2016, he submitted a dissertation on ''Musical Modernism at the Opera Houses of Berlin and Vienna 1945–1989'' to the
Department of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna, which was published in book form in 2017.
Publications
* Michael Kraus: ''Die musikalische Moderne an den Staatsopern von Berlin und Wien 1945–1989. Paradigmen nationaler Kulturidentitäten im Kalten Krieg'',
Springer Verlag: Berlin/Heidelberg/New York 2017. .
References
Further reading
*
Karl-Josef Kutsch
Karl-Josef Kutsch, also known as K. J. Kutsch, (born 11 May 1924) is a German physician and co-author with Leo Riemens of the ''Großes Sängerlexikon'', the standard reference for opera singers.
Life and work
Born in Gangelt, Kutsch studied ...
,
Leo Riemens
Leonardus Antony Marinus Riemens (3 December 1910 – 3 April 1985) was a Dutch musicologist and cultural journalist. He wrote a book about Maria Callas, and together with Karl-Josef Kutsch began a reference book about opera singers in 1962, which ...
: ''
Großes Sängerlexikon
''Großes Sängerlexikon'' (''Biographical Dictionary of Singers'', literally: Large singers' lexicon) is a single-field dictionary of singers in classical music, edited by Karl-Josef Kutsch and Leo Riemens and first published in 1987. The first ...
''. Fourth, expanded and updated edition. Munich 2003. volume 4: Kainz–Menkes, . .
* Kürschners Musiker-Handbuch 2006.
K. G. Saur Verlag
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In 1987, K. G. Saur was acquired by Reed Intern ...
. Munich 2006. . .
* Michael Kraus. Interview in ''
Opernglas''. April 1991 edition. .
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Austrian operatic baritones
Bass-baritones
1957 births
Living people
Singers from Vienna