Hans Hotter [SEP] voice type
Hans Hotter
Hans Hotter (19 January 19098 December 2003) was a German operatic bass-baritone. He was extremely tall and his appearance was striking. His voice and diction were equally recognisable.
Early life and career.
Born in Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Hotter studied with Matthäus Roemer in Munich. He worked as an organist and choirmaster before making his operatic debut in Opava in 1930.
He performed in Germany and Austria under the Nazi regime, avoiding pressure on performers to join the Nazi Party,
London in 1965 and making a film of Der Freischutz. In Ring Resounding Culshaw states that he came to the Siegfried sessions in magnificent voice but totally unprepared. Solti and Hans Hotter spent nights with him trying to teach him the part but Hotter started running out of voice and Decca brass saw that too much money was being wasted so Decca went hat in hand to Wolfgang Windgassen. Its a shame but apparently Kozub missed the opportunity of a lifetime by not studying the part for a recorodng that could have made him a superstar