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Place of Birth: Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
About Hans Hopf
- Hans Hopf (August 2, 1916, Nuremberg – June 25, 1993, Munich) was a German operatic tenor, one of the leading heldentenors of the immediate postwar period.
- He sang Walther von Stolzing in the Bayreuth Festival's Die Meistersinger, in 1951 and again in 1952.
- He would also sing Siegfried at Bayreuth from 1960–1963.He studied in Munich with Paul Bender, and made his stage debut with a touring opera ensemble, as Pinkerton, in 1936.
- He then sang in Augsburg (1939–42), Dresden (1942–43), and Oslo (1943–44).
- He joined the Berlin State Opera in 1946, and the Munich State Opera, in 1949.
- He appeared in Bayreuth in 1951, as Walther, returning as Siegmund, Siegfried (in 1960), Tannhäuser, and Parsifal (in 1952).
- At Bayreuth in 1951 he took part in a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler.
- He sang Max at the Salzburg Festival in 1954.
- He made guest appearances in Milan, London, New York, and Buenos Aires.
- He sang both Siegfrieds in the early 1960s at Bayreuth, the Met, and elsewhere, recording Tannhäuser twice in 1960. A singer with a sturdy and reliable voice, Hopf also won acclaim in a number of non-Wagnerian operas notably Verdi's Otello, and the Emperor in Die Frau ohne Schatten.
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