| Biography | Hugh Beresford was a British operatic baritone, later Heldentenor.
Beresford had his first engagement at the Landestheater Linz, where he sang the role of Wolfram von Eschenbach in Tannhäuser as a baritone in 1953. In Linz, he sang among others in Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera Edipo Re, his last and only posthumously premiered stage work, of which a complete recording was also produced in 1960 by Österreichischer Rundfunk with the ensemble of the Linzer Landestheater. This was followed by engagements at the Opernhaus Graz and the Theater Augsburg. From 1958 to 1960, he sang at the Opernhaus Wuppertal. In 1960, he became a permanent member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where he remained in the ensemble until 1970 and also began his international career. |