Herincx, Raimund (Fridrik)
Herincx, Raimund (Fridrik)
Herincx, Raimund (Fridrik), English bassbaritone of Belgian descent; b. London, Aug. 23, 1927. He received his training from Van Dyck in Belgium and from Valli in Italy. In 1950 he made his operatic debut as Mozart’s Figaro with the Welsh National Opera. In 1956 he joined the Sadler’s Wells Opera in London, where his roles included Count Almaviva, Pizzaro, Germont, Rigoletto, and Stravinsky’s Nick Shadow and Creon. In 1966 he was a soloist in Delius’s A Mass of Life in N.Y., and in 1967 he sang in opera in Boston. From 1968 he appeared at London’s Covent Garden, winning success as the King Fisher in the Midsummer Marriage, Macbeth, and Escamillo, and creating roles in the premieres of The Knot Garden (1970) and Taverner (1972). In 1973-74 he sang at the Salzburg East Festivals, and then in the Ring cycles at the English National Opera in London (1974–76). On Jan. 18, 1977, he made his debut as Mathiesen in Le Prophète at the Metropolitan Opera in N.Y,, and then sang with the Seattle (1977–81) and San Francisco (1983) operas. In 1986 he returned to Boston to sing in the U.S. premiere of Taverner.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire