Gerd Nienstedt [SEP] voice type
Gerd Nienstedt
Gerd Nienstedt (10 July 1932 – 14 August 1993) was a German and Austrian opera singer, bass and bass-baritone. After an international career at major opera houses and the Bayreuth Festival, he was also a theatre director, stage director and academic voice teacher.
Career.
Karl Gustav Gerhard Nienstedt was born in Hannover. He studied voice at the "Opernschule" there with Otto Köhler. His first engagement was in 1954 at the ', where he made his debut as the king in
- "Die Piraten", a German-language version, was premiered on German television in 1968 and starred Arleen Auger as Mabel, Gerd Nienstedt as the Pirate King and Martha Mödl as Ruth, with Franz Marszalek conducting. Mabel falls in love with the Pirate King, among other plot changes. A 2-CD set of the broadcast was issued by Gala Records in 2000.
- Several other television adaptations of the opera have been made, beginning in 1939.
See also.
- "Our Island Home",