Richard Salter (singer), Date of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Salter (singer)

British singer and opera singer

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1943

Date of Death: 01-Feb-2009

Profession: singer, opera singer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Richard Jeffrey Salter (Hindhead, Surrey, on November 12, 1943 – Karlsruhe, February 1, 2009) was an English baritone, known as a founder member of The Kings Singers before moving to Austria and Germany to take leading roles in many contemporary operas.After the Kings Singers' first concerts and recording in 1969, Salter was awarded a Richard Tauber Scholarship and moved to Vienna where he successfully established himself as an opera singer.
Among his signature roles were Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Requiem for a Young Poet, Schoenberg's Von heute auf morgen, the baritone lead in operas by Manfred Trojahn and Wolfgang Rihm, the main character K.
in Aribert Reimann's Das Schloß after Kafka (1996), and Philip Glass' Waiting for the Barbarians (2005).