1. Siegfried Vogel was born on 6 March 1937 and is a German operatic bass.
12 Facts About Siegfried Vogel
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Siegfried Vogel began in Mozart roles, but expanded his repertoire, including world premieres of operas.
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Siegfried Vogel made his debut there as Zizell in Adolphe Adam's Si j'etais roi in 1959, and was successful in Mozart roles.
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Siegfried Vogel became a member of the Berlin State Opera in 1965, where he appeared in Mozart roles again, the title role of Le nozze di Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni and Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte.
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Siegfried Vogel performed as Rocco in Beethoven's Fidelio, as Kaspar in Weber's Der Freischutz, as Hunding in Wagner's Die Walkure, as Basilio in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia and as Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen, among others.
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Siegfried Vogel took part in the world premieres of Paul Dessau's Lanzelot in 1969, of Alan Bush's Joe Hill in 1970, and of Ernst Hermann Meyer's Reiter in der Nacht in 1973.
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Siegfried Vogel performed at the Komische Oper Berlin, in 1983 the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and in 1991 the role of Morosus in Die schweigsame Frau by Richard Strauss.
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Siegfried Vogel appeared at the Bayreuth Festival from 1982 to 1989, as Heinrich in Lohengrin, as Biterolf in Tannhauser, as Fasolt in Das Rheingold and as Titurel in Parsifal.
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Siegfried Vogel appeared worldwide, including tours of the Staatsoper Berlin.
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Siegfried Vogel sang at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, at the Paris Opera, at the Opera national du Rhin in Strasbourg, in Brussels, Vienna, at La Scala in Milan, in Venice, Stockholm, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Budapest, Cairo, Nice, and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
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Siegfried Vogel made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1986 as Hunding in Die Walkure.
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Siegfried Vogel was regarded as an outstanding concert and oratorio singer, especially in music by Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel.