Grobe, Donald (1929–1986)

US tenor. He made his debut at Chicago in 1952, in Verdi's Rigoletto and sang in New York 1953–56. In 1956 he moved to Germany and sang with the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, from 1960; he appeared in the first performances of Henze's Der junge Lord/The Young Lord (1965) and Fortner's Elisabeth Tudor (1972). With the Munich Opera he sang Ferrando at Edinburgh in 1965 and visited the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in 1972, as Strauss's Flamand and Henry Morosus. He was highly regarded in modern opera, sang Alwa, Tom Rakewell, and Aschenbach, and appeared in Hindemith's Mathis der Maler/Matthew the Painter and Orff's Trionfi.