Siegfried Jerusalem [SEP] voice type
Siegfried Jerusalem
Siegfried Jerusalem (born 17 April 1940) is a German operatic tenor. Closely identified with the heldentenor roles of Wagner, he has performed Siegfried, Siegmund, Lohengrin, Parsifal, and Tristan to wide acclaim. Since the 1990s, he has focused on lieder, particularly those by Strauss, Mahler and Schumann.
Beginnings.
Siegfried Jerusalem was born at Oberhausen, and studied piano, violin and bassoon at the Folkwangschule in Essen. He began his career as bassoonist, being engaged in Hof in 1961 and
been a professor of voice at the in Berlin.
Selected recordings.
Sharp appeared in her Bayreuth performances on film – the "Ring" cycle filmed in 1980 and "Parsifal" in 1982. She sang Waldvogel and Gutrune in the 1983 "Ring" digital recording with Marek Janowski conducting the , with Theo Adam as Wotan, Jessye Norman as Sieglinde, Siegfried Jerusalem as Siegmund, and René Kollo as Siegfried.
External links.
- Norma Sharp black-international-cinema.com