Häger, Klaus

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Häger, Klaus
Date of birth
1965
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
Naumann, J.G. Aci e Galatea [SR] p2002: label, etc. (Hager
Klaus Hager
b. 1965, Wuppertal
sings role of Polifemo)
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 79733644
Wikidata: Q20676876
Library of congress: n 92050514
TAU10: 000301633
Sources of Information
  • Lortzing, A. Undine [SR] p1990:container (Klaus Häger, bass)
  • Naumann, J.G. Aci e Galatea [SR] p2002:label, etc. (Häger; Klaus Häger; b. 1965, Wuppertal; sings role of Polifemo)

Wikipedia description:

Klaus Häger (born 1965 in Wuppertal) is a German bass singer. He studied under Franz Müller-Heuser, Ingeborg Most and Jürgen Glauß in Köln and Freiburg, before attending master-classes with Ernst Haefliger and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. From 1991 he was a member of the Hamburg State Opera, and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin from 1997. He is noted in particular for his recordings of J. S. Bach, including BWV 244, 205, 213, 248, 26, 36, 90, 129, 135, 140, 173a, 207, and BWV 243a. Häger has sung in Lieder recitals and made numerous recordings for German television, and has also performed at festivals such as Salzburg Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and Ludwigsburg Festival.

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