Hale, Robert (1943– )

US bass-baritone. He studied with Boris Goldovsky in New York and made debut there in 1966, as Mozart's Figaro. He performed with the New York City Opera from 1967, as Don Giovanni, Oroveso, and the Father in Louise. His European debut was at Stuttgart in 1978 as the Dutchman, and he sang Jochanaan at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in 1988 (returning as Orestes in 1990). In 1992 he sang Barak in Die Frau ohne Schatten/The Woman without a Shadow at Salzburg. His Wotan in the Ring was admired at the Vienna Staatsoper (1992–93) and at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris (1994). His recordings include Die Frau ohne Schatten (on video from Salzburg).