Olaf Bär |
Olaf Bär
Date of birth
19.12.1957
Profession
singer
Voice type
baritone
Country
Germany
Debut 1983 (Dresden, as Count Robinson in Cimarosa’s Secret Marriage). In 1985 he sang in Dresden and Covent Garden (harlequin part in Ariadne auf Naxos by R. Strauss). Debut in the USA in 1987 (St. Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach). In 1987 and 1991 he sang at the Glyndebourne Festival (the parts of the Count in op. Capriccio by R. Strauss and Don Giovanni). He sang the role of Guglielmo in “That’s the way everyone does it” (1994, Cologne). Among the recordings are the party of Papageno (dir. Marriner, Philips) and a number of others.
E. Tsodokov
