Helmut Klotz

This article deals with the singer Helmut Klotz. For other people see Helmuth Klotz .

Helmut Klotz (born February 10, 1935 in Oederan ) is a German opera singer (tenor) and choirmaster .

Life

Helmut Klotz studied cello and singing at the Dresden University of Music from 1954 to 1960 . He worked as a cellist in the Staatskapelle Dresden as early as 1958/59 before he was hired as a tenor at the State Theaters of Saxony in Radebeul after completing his studies . In 1961 he went to the Leipzig Opera House . Between 1977 and 1982 Klotz also made guest appearances at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin a number of times, as evidenced by the cast slips of those years collected in the Berlin State Library and in the Berlin State Archives (among others as Belmonte and Pedrillo in "Die Entführung aus dem Serail", Jaquino in "Fidelio") , Animal dealer and landlord in “Der Rosenkavalier” and as Jakob in the children's opera “Meister Röckle” by Joachim Werzlau).

In addition to performing numerous roles at the opera, he also appeared as a concert and oratorio singer , for example in many performances with the Leipzig Thomanerchor and the Dresden Kreuzchor .

When Werner Sander's death in 1972 made the choir director at the Leipzig Synagogal Choir vacant, Helmut Klotz was appointed to this position. For 40 years he worked with the semi-professional choir as its director, but also as a lead singer, at a high artistic level. Under the direction of Helmut Klotz, the Leipzig Synagogal Choir last performed on April 14, 2012 at a gala concert in the great hall of the Leipzig Gewandhaus , Klotz's successor was the singer and choir conductor Ludwig Böhme . Both Klotz and the choir have received several awards.

In the 2011/12 season, Klotz was in Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera " Iphigenie in Aulis " (in a production by Peter Konwitschny ) in the audition as Gluck on the stage of the Leipzig Opera.

Awards

• 1981 Art Prize of the GDR
• 1985 appointment as chamber singer
• 1998 Medal of Honor from the City of Leipzig
• 1998 Saxon Order of Merit
• 2000 honorary member of the Leipzig Opera
• 2005 Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 302.

Web links

• Helmut Klotz on the website of the Leipzig Synagogue Choir