Driscoll, Loren (1928– )

American tenor. He made his debut in Boston in 1954, in Falstaff. He sang at the New York City Opera 1958–59 and in 1962 joined the Deutsche Oper, in Berlin; he was well known there as Ottavio, Flamand, and Berg's Painter. In 1965 he created Lord Barrat in Henze's Der Junge Lord and in 1968 was Eumaus in the first performance of Dallapiccola's Ulisse. At the 1966 Salzburg Festival he created Dionysus in The Bassarids. He sang at Glyndebourne in 1962 as Ferrando, and at Rome in 1982 in Lortzing's Undine.