Heinz Imdahl
German singer and opera singer (1924-2012)
Heinz Imdahl (9 August 1924 – 21 March 2012) was a German operatic baritone. A member of the Bavarian State Opera, he performed many leading roles at the Vienna State Opera, and appeared as Beethoven's Pizarro at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and Wagner's Hans Sachs at the Philadelphia Opera.
Life
Imdahl was born in Düsseldorf, where his parents ran a butcher shop. After graduating from school, he completed an apprenticeship as a butcher. He then studied singing privately for seven years with the well-known singing teacher and Kammersänger Berthold Pütz in Krefeld. After the Second World War, further studies at the Musikhochschule Köln followed. He made his stage debut in 1948 at the Opernhaus Düsseldorf as Sergeant Moralès in Bizet's Carmen, directed by Gustaf Gründgens. At the beginning of his career, he sang the lyrical baritone repertoire. He was engaged at the Düsseldorf Opera until 1951 and again from 1955 to 1962, then the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. He was a member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1959 to 1988, where he was awarded the title Kammersänger.
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