Gerhard Faulstich [SEP] voice type
Gerhard Faulstich
Gerhard Faulstich is a German baritone.
After voice studies at the , Gerhard Faulstich was active since 1965 as a concert singer. He made his operatic debut at the in as Leonardo in Wolfgang Fortner's opera "Bluthochzeit". In 1981, he joined the Staatsoper Hannover and the faculty of the Musikhochschule Hannover where he is a professor. At the Staatsoper Hannover he performed among others Papageno in Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte", Tsar Peter in Lortzing's "Zar und Zimmermann", Wolfram in "Tannhäuser
operas by Richard Strauss, Octavian in "Der Rosenkavalier" and the composer in "Ariadne auf Naxos". After Munich and Bremen, she sang from 1968 at the Staatsoper Hannover. The same year, she appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as the valkyrie Grimgerde in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre. She performed in 1969 in Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina" another trousers role, Palestrina's pupil Silja. In 1973, she appeared in Benjamin Britten's "Owen Wingrave", conducted by George Alexander Albrecht, with Gerhard Faulstich in