Kurt Böhme

Kurt Böhme was a German bass who studied with Adolf Kluge at the Dresden Conservatory and made his debut at Bautzen in 1930. He joined the Dresden Staatsoper that year, creating Count Dominik in Arabella in 1933 and Vanuzzi in Die schweigsame Frau in 1935, and took part in the premieres of Sutermeister's Romeo und Julia in 1940 and Die Zauberinsel in 1942; he later became a celebrated Sir Morosus. He moved to the Bavarian State Opera in 1949 and the Vienna State Opera in 1955, and was known above all for Baron Ochs, which he sang for four decades.