Roland Hermann (17 September 1936 – 17 November 2020)[1] was a German operatic baritone and former professor at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe.
Born in Bochum, Hermann studied at the University of Freiburg, the Hochschule für Musik Mainz and the Musikhochschule Frankfurt.
[2][3] Hermann made his opera debut as Count Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Theater Trier in 1967.
Engagements as a soloist with orchestras and as lieder singer led him to concert halls in Europe, the United States where he made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1983, and to the Far East.
[2] In addition to the usual leading baritone roles – the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhäuser, Germont in Verdi's La traviata and Amfortas in Wagner's Parsifal – he sang in rarely performed works, including the title role in Marschner's Der Vampyr and Busoni's Doktor Faust, Schumann's Genoveva, Moses in Schönberg's Moses und Aron, and in Werner Egk's Peer Gynt.