A few days before his 84th birthday, the heroic tenor Reiner Goldberg passed away today in Berlin. At the Bayreuth Festival between 1986 and 1994, Reiner Goldberg performed Tannhäuser, both Siegfrieds in Ring des Nibelungen, Walther von Stolzing, and Erik. At his home theater, the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, as well as in Paris, New York, London, Milan, Florence, Rome, Zurich, Salzburg, Barcelona, Tokyo, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, and Dresden, he appeared in his signature roles of Stolzing, Erik, Siegfried, Tannhäuser, Max, and Herod, and was enthusiastically celebrated for decades. Further highlights of his career included Aron in Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron, Tambourmajor, Berg’s Wozzek, and roles in operas by Zemlinsky, Borodin, and Dvorak. After his long active career, he continued to share his vocal technique and stage experience as a sought-after singing teacher until recently. We remember a great artist!
Photo: (c) Bernhard Hansky