Herincx, Raimund (1927– )

English bass-baritone. He made his debut with the Welsh National Opera in 1950, as Mozart's Figaro. He appeared with the Sadler's Wells Theatre (later the English National Opera Ensemble) in almost 50 roles from 1953, including Nick Shadow, Germont, and Wotan (1974–76). In 1968 he sang King Fisher in a new production of The Midsummer Marriage at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, and returned for the first performances of The Knot Garden (1970) and Taverner (1972). He made his US debut in Delius's A Mass of Life at New York in 1966, and his US opera debut in Boston in 1967. In the 1973–74 season he sang Pogner and Fafner at Salzburg, under Karajan. His New York Metropolitan Opera House debut was in 1977, in Le Prophète, and he sang the White Abbot in the first US performance of Taverner at Boston in 1986.