Günter Reich
Günter Reich (22 November 1921 – 15 January 1989), also spelled Günther Reich and Gunther Reich, was an Israeli baritone of German birth. He was a member of the Staatsoper Stuttgart for more than 20 years and is known for interpreting the works of Arnold Schoenberg in collaboration with Michael Gielen and Pierre Boulez. Career Reich was born in Liegnitz (then part of Germany) and emigrated with his family to Mandatory Palestine in 1934. In 1958 he entered the Deutsche Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he was a student of Richard Sengeleitner. He made his professional opera debut at the Stadttheater Gelsenkirchen as Iago in Giuseppe Verdi's Otello. From 1968 until his death in 1989 he was a member of the Staatsoper Stuttgart. He also worked extensively as a guest artist with opera companies internationally, making appearances with such organizations as the Bavarian State Opera, De Nederlandse Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Edinburgh Festival, the Oper Frankfurt, the Hamburg State Opera, the Leipzig Opera, the Liceu, the Metropolitan Opera, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Royal Opera, London, the Salzburg Festival, the Stadttheater Aachen, the Teatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro), the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, the Teatro