Heinz Hoppe

Heinz Hoppe (26 January 1924 – 7 April 1993) was a German lyric tenor in opera, lied and operetta, who performed internationally.

During the Second World War he fought on the Eastern Front and did not return from Soviet captivity to his home country until 1948.

He studied voice at the Detmold Conservatory on a scholarship, where Gerd Husler converted him from baritone to tenor.

[2] Hoppe made his stage debut in 1953 in the title role of Handel's Xerxes at the Theater Münster.

He appeared as a regular guest on Heinz Schenk's television show Zum Blauen Bock [de].