Hans Sotin [SEP] voice type
Hans Sotin
Hans Sotin (born 10 September 1939) is a German operatic bass.
He was born in Dortmund and studied at the Dortmund Hochschule für Musik. He made his operatic debut in 1962 in Essen as the Police Commissioner in Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier". He joined the Hamburg State Opera in 1964 where he was made a Kammersänger. He had a long career in which he sang most of the major bass roles in many opera houses, both in Europe and America. He made numerous appearances at the
tenor solo in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1986, conducted by Georg Solti with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, alongside Jessye Norman, Reinhild Runkel and Hans Sotin.
From 2001 until his retirement in 2013, Schunk was professor of voice at Aachen location of the Musikhochschule Köln.
External links.
- Robert Schunk on the