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Peter Hoffmann, Crossover Tenor, Dies

WFMT-FM has reported that German tenor Peter Hoffmann has died after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. Besides his distinguished international career as a star of Wagner operas, he starred in the Hamburg production of "The Phantom Of The Opera." He was 64.
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Peter Hoffmann, Crossover Tenor, Dies

Wonderful performer. Brilliant Wagnerian in his prime. Sadly, his Parkinson's forced him to retire at a very early age (late forties).
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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Peter Hoffmann, Crossover Tenor, Dies

If my memory is correct, he made a recording of "West Side Story" conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, co-starring soprano Deborah Sasson. Is that correct? I think he had a lot of curly blond hair on the LP cover (it was the '80s, after all!).
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Peter Hoffmann, Crossover Tenor, Dies

Peter Hoffmann was a very good-looking guy. Yes, he had curly blond hair and chisled features.

I saw him in several Wagnerian production at the Met. The one that stands out was LOHENGRIN and he was remarkable.

I believe he did the original German production of Phantom.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
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Peter Hoffmann, Crossover Tenor, Dies

He sings the part of Seigmund in the Chereau production of the Ring Cycle. IMHO, he started the whole "get a hot bod" approach to opera casting. In his case, of course, he could carry it off, with a solid voice.
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Peter Hoffmann, Crossover Tenor, Dies

Some say that he ruined his voice by singing rock music in Germany. I don't know if that was a fact.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

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