Hans Braun (baritone)

He was a long-term member of the Vienna State Opera and appeared in leading roles such as Mozart's Count Almaviva and Wagner's Wolfram, including in major European opera houses and festivals.

[1] He studied voice at the Wiener Musikakademie with Hermann Gallos and Hans Duhan.

[1][2] At the Salzburg Festival, he first appeared as a concert singer, then in 1949 and 1950 as the Minister in Beethoven's Fidelio, in 1950 also as Olivier in Capriccio by Richard Strauss and Tarquinius in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia.

He appeared at the Royal Opera House in London as Count Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in 1949 and as Orest in Elektra by Richard Strauss in 1953, which he also sang at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino that year.

He appeared also in Naples, Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg, and at the Bayreuth Festival,[1] where he performed the role of the Heerrufer in Lohengrin.