Krebs, Helmut (1913– )

German tenor. His career began as a concert singer. He made his stage debut in Berlin in 1938; from 1947 he was engaged at the Städtische Oper there. In 1953 he sang Belmonte and Idamante at Glyndebourne and the following year was Aron in the first performance of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, a concert performance in Hamburg. He made guest appearances in Milan, London, Vienna, and Munich and returned to the Deutsche Oper, Berlin in 1988 in From the House of the Dead. He recorded Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Monteverdi's Orfeo. He was well known as an interpreter of Bach.