Performance
Klaus König
Klaus König is credited on 72 releases across 16 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1980–2022 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
72
Pressings credited
16
Albums
5
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Klaus König (26 May 1934 – 7 June 2025) was a German operatic tenor focused on heldentenor roles including Wagner's Tannhäuser, Lohengrin and Parsifal. Based at the Staatsoper Dresden, he made an international career, performing as Tannhäuser at the Royal Opera House in London and La Scala in Milan in 1984. He performed the tenor solo in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, conducted by Leonard Bernstein at the Konzerthaus Berlin after the Fall of the Berlin Wall. At the time of his death in 2025, Place de l'Opera magazine described him as "one of the most important tenors of his generation, especially in the heroic tenor repertoire."
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Credited work
72 releases · 16 albums · active 1980–2022
- Performance · 82
Studios: Herkulessaal, München · Schauspielhaus Berlin · Studio Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche, Leipzig · Abbey Road Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Liszt
- Beethoven
- Mahler
- Franz Liszt
- Bernstein
- Joseph Suder
- Wagner
- Schumann
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