Bruce Abel (25 July 1936 – 10 March 2021[1]) was an American bass singer.
Abel studied singing at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City under Hans Heinz, where he excelled in studies of French art songs and German lieder.
He won a Fulbright Fellowship in 1962 which enabled him to pursue further studies in the lieder and oratorio repertoire in Stuttgart, Germany with Hermann Reutter, Lore Fischer and Elinor Junker-Giesen.
He was notably a soloist in the 1971 world premiere of Fritz Werner’s Whitsun Oratorio in Heilbronn, Germany.
In 1974 he joined the voice faculty at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart.