Berlin’s best-known bass
mainReiner Süß,a star of the Deutsche Staatsoper from 1959 and a fixture on East German television with Da liegt Musike drin, has died just short of his 85th birthday. He featured on numerous recordings.
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Reiner Süss was “my” Don Bartolo in Berlin’s Staatsoper unter den Linden in the 90’s, in that unforgettable Ruth Berghaus production of “Barbiere”(of course in German, not Italian). He was a wonderful artist, a funny and intelligent man, and in those years I learned a lot from those many singers, vocal coaches, pianists and all musicians in that wonderful house.