Helmut Krebs

Helmut Krebs (born October 8, 1913 in Aachen , † August 30, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German opera and oratorio singer ( tenor ).

Life

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Helmut Krebs was born in Aachen and raised in Dortmund on. He graduated from high school in Berlin. His operatic career began in 1937 at the Volksoper Berlin , where he sang Monostatos in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Zauberflöte . In 1938 he had to interrupt his career because of military service, which he then continued in 1945 with performances in Düsseldorf . As early as 1949 he performed with the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau . Krebs sang in 1949 at the world premiere of Carl Orff's Antigonae at the Salzburg Festival under Ferenc Fricsay and at the first performance of Oedipus the Tyrann under Heinrich Hollreiser in Vienna. In 1954 he took over the role of Aron at the concert premiere of Arnold Schönberg's Moses und Aron.

Krebs was a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble for almost 40 years . At the Deutsche Oper, Krebs was involved in, among others, Die Flut and Rosamunde Floris by Boris Blacher , in König Hirsch , The young Lord and Wir reach the River by Hans Werner Henze . There he was appointed chamber singer in 1963 . From 1957, Krebs taught at the Berlin Music Academy . In 1966 he went to the Frankfurt University of Music as a professor of singing .

In 1987, Krebs retired as a member of the ensemble; however, he returned to the stage of the Deutsche Oper in Götz Friedrich's production of Leoš Janáček's From a House of the Dead in the role of the very old convict.

He died at the age of 94 and was buried in the St. Annen Kirchhof cemetery in Berlin-Dahlem .

personal data
SURNAME	Cancer, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German opera and oratorio singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH	October 8, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen
DATE OF DEATH	August 30, 2007
Place of death	Berlin