Frick, Gottlob (1906–1994)

German bass. He made his debut in Coburg in 1934, as Daland, and sang in Dresden 1940–50, and Munich and Vienna from 1953. He appeared at Bayreuth 1957–64 as Pogner, Hagen, and Hunding, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 1957–67 in productions of Der Ring des Nibelungen/The Ring of the Nibelung. From 1963 he sang under Solti, with whom he recorded Hagen in the first stereo issue of Götterdämmerung/Twilight of the Gods. He appeared as Gurnemanz at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1971. His New York Metropolitan Opera House debut was in 1961 as Fafner; a proposed debut in 1950 was vetoed by Rudolf Bing because of Frick's Nazi past.