Gerhard Stolze was a German tenor.
He was a character tenor best known as a Wagner singer. His most famous roles were Mime, David, Loge, Aegisth and Herod. He also sang the Captain in Wozzeck and, the roles of Oberon and the Emperor Nero, both of which were originally written for countertenor. He recorded Mozart's high-tenor Singspiel roles, Monostatos and Pedrillo.
He portrays Mime on both the studio recordings of Siegfried by Herbert von Karajan and Georg Solti.
His voice was very high, thin,...
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