Roland Hermann (Bass-Baritone)

Born: September 17, 1936 - Bochum, Germany

The German bass-baritone, Roland Hermann, attended the Universities of Freiburg im Bresgau, Mainz, and Frankfurt am Main, and received his vocal training from Margarete von Winterfeldt, Paul Lohmann, and Flaminio Contini. In 1961 he took 1^st prize in the competition of the German radio stations.

In 1967 Roland Hermann made his operatic debut as Mozart’s Figaro in Trier, then joined the Zürich Opera in 1968. He also sang opera in Munich, Cologne, Buenos Aires, Paris, Berlin, and other cities. His engagements as a soloist with orchestras and as a recitalist took him to many of the major music centres of Europe, the USA (debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1983), and the Far East. In addition to such operatic roles as Don Giovanni, Wolfram, Germont, and Amfortas, he sang in such rarely-performed works as Schumann’s Genoveva, Marschner’s Der Vampyr, Ferruccio Busoni’s Doktor Faust, and Arnold Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron. He also sang in several premiers, among them Keltenborn’s Der Kirschgarten (Zürich, 1984) and Höller’s Der Meister und Margarita (Paris 1989).

Source: Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of 20^th Century Classical Musicians (1997)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (June 2001)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Eugen Jochum

Bass

BWV 232

Links to other Sites

The Jury (DJSG) [German]
Roland Hermann - biography (Gulbenkian) [Portuguese]

Soloists of the season 2002/2003: Roland Hermann (BR Online) [German/English]