Nimsgern, Siegmund (1940– )

German bass-baritone. He studied at Saarbrucken and was a member of the Staatstheater there between 1971 and 1974; he joined the Deutsche Oper, Düsseldorf, in 1975. He was Mephistopheles in a concert performance of the Berlioz Faust, in London in 1972. In 1973 he returned to London to sing Amfortas at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; he also appeared as Dapertutto in a new production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann. He has sung in the USA from 1973, making his New York debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1978 as Pizarro. He is well known as a performer of the sacred music of Bach, Haydn, Pergolesi, and Telemann. His Wotan in the 1983 Solti–Hall Ring at Bayreuth was much discussed. He sang Telramund at Frankfurt, 1991.