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Heinz Kruse
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'''Heinz Kruse''' (29 August 1940 – 29 July 2008) was a German opera singer ([[tenor]]).
== Career ==
Born in [[Schleswig]], Kruse first sang in a children's choir and completed an apprenticeship with a health insurance company. His only singing lesson was with Traute Albers-Gisevius in Schleswig. He began his singing career as a choirist at the theater in [[Hof (Saale)|Hof]], then at [[Stadttheater Bern]] and from 1966 to 1968 at [[Staatstheater Stuttgart]]. In 1968 he was engaged as at the [[Theater Basel]]. His next station was the [[Staatsoper Hannover]] in 1970, where he celebrated his first great successes in buffo and character roles. He sang Pedrillo in ''[[Die Entführung aus dem Serail]]'', Wenzel in ''[[Die verkaufte Braut]]'', Die Hexe in ''[[Hänsel und Gretel (opera)|Hänsel und Gretel]]'', David in ''[[Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg]]'' and numerous other roles. Guest appearances led him to the [[Paris Opera]] as Pedrillo in 1978, to the opera of [[Toulouse]] as David in 1979 and to the [[Bayreuth Festival]] in 1977, where he played small roles in ''[[Tristan und Isolde|Tristan]]'' and ''[[Parsifal]]''. In 1986 he took part in the premiere of [[Hans-Jürgen von Bose]]'s ''Die Leiden des jungen Werthers'' at the [[Schwetzinger Festspiele]].
Since 1987 active as [[heldentenor]], he dedicated himself to roles like Florestan in ''[[Fidelio]]'' ([[Staatstheater Mainz]] 1988), Erik in ''[[The Flying Dutchman]]'' ([[Staatsoper Berlin]] 1991), ''[[Parsifal]]'' ([[Staatstheater Braunschweig]] 1988/89), the box in ''[[Das Rheingold]]'' ([[Staatsoper Hannover]] 1991, Hamburg 1992), Siegmund in ''[[Die Walküre]]'' (Hanover 1991), Tristan ([[Theater Kiel]] 1991, [[Hamburgische Staatsoper]] 1996, [[Deutsche Oper Berlin]] 1996) and the Kaiser in ''[[Die Frau ohne Schatten]]'' (Braunschweig 1992, [[Semperoper]] Dresden 1996) as well as Walther von Stolzing in the ''Meistersingern''. ([[Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe]] 1992/93).
A highlight of his singing career in Hamburg in 1993 was the title role in ''[[Siegfried (opera)|Siegfried]]'', which he also sang at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1995, at the [[Théâtre du Châtelet]] in Paris in 1994/95 and in the [[Aalto Theatre]] in Essen in 1996. During his appearance as Siegfried at the Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam in 1998, he fell after his fight with the dragon and dislocated his arm; the performance had to be stopped. In 2000 he also sang this role at the [[Vienna State Opera]].
His stage repertoire also included Cassio in ''[[Otello]]'', Hans in ''[[The Bartered Bride]]'', Matteo in ''[[Arabella]]'' (Hamburg 1990), Andrej Chowansky in ''[[Chowanschtschina]]'' (Hamburg 1994) and Albi in ''[[Der Schatzgräber]]'' (Hamburg 1989). In 1990 he made a guest appearance at [[Opernhaus Leipzig]] as Max in Krenek's ''[[Jonny spielt auf]]''. In addition, he appeared as an oratorio and song singer, for example regularly in the [[Hauptkirche St. Nikolai (Hamburg-Harvestehude)|Hauptkirche St. Nikolai]] in Hamburg, where he could be heard mainly as [[Evangelist (Bach)|Evangelist]] in [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]'s ''[[Christmas Oratorio]]'', ''[[St Matthew Passion]]'' and ''[[St John Passion]]''.
In 2000, Kruse suffered a stroke that ended his career. His daughter, Svenja Kruse, whom he taught, now works as a soprano. His son Björn Kruse (born in 1968) works successfully as an opera and theatre director. Kruse inspired critics and audiences with his beautiful and expressive voice. His clear articulation resulted in a special comprehensibility of words
== Bibliography ==
* [[Karl-Josef Kutsch]], [[Leo Riemens]]: ''[[Großes Sängerlexikon]]'' 3rd edition. Publisher K.G. Saur, Munich 1999, volume 3, .
== External links ==
* [http://bit.ly/2RbfrZB ''Hamburger Kammersänger Heinz Kruse gestorben''], ''[[Der Standard]]'' online 31 July 2008
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ldoRnstv5A Jeffrey Tate conducts Siegfried's Finale (Paris 1994)] (YouTube)
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[[Category:People from Schleswig]]
[[Category:German operatic tenors]]
[[Category:Heldentenors]]
[[Category:20th-century German singers]]
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