English Bio:
Klaus Schuermann, Viennese bass-baritone, enjoyed a long operatic career in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, while appearing frequently on Austrian radio and television as a singer-actor. He performed with such well-known artists as Ileana Cotrubas at Schloss Schönbrunn in Vienna (Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail—Osmin), with Edith Mathis (Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro—Bartolo) in Luzerne, Switzerland and with Senta Berger, Curd Jurgens and Maximillian Schell in Jedermann at the famous Salzburg Festival. His operatic roles ranged from Dr. Bartolo in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville to Colline in Puccini’s La Boheme and he also sang major musical roles in Jesus Christ Superstar (Caiphas) and Fiddler on the Roof (Lazar Wolf), as well as appearing in The Phantom of the Opera with Helen Tintes-Schuermann, whom he married in 1996.
In later years, Schuermann was active as a concert artist (Liederabende in Vienna, Chicago, South Carolina and Florida) and enjoyed performing popular standards with orchestra/combos both in the USA and in his Austrian homeland. He sang the role of Falstaff in Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor in Chicago while living in the USA. Schuermann received the vocal performance degree in Opera and Operetta (with highest honors) from the Vienna Academy (now University) and was also a mechanical engineer. Recent performances include concerts in Vienna, featuring traditional Viennese songs and German lieder. He released the cd: These Precious Days with his wife, Helen Tintes-Schuermann and Dick Goodwin, bandleader and composer, while living in South Carolina. Schuermann died on July 16, 2019 in his native city of Vienna, Austria.
German Bio:
In Wien geboren war der Absolvent der Wiener Musikakademie (jetzt Musikuniversität) gern gesehener Gast im TV und Rundfunk. Nach Abschluss des Studiums wirkte er acht Jahre in verschiedenen Opernhaüsern (Luzern, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz, St. Gallen, usw.) in Bassrollen von Mozart, Rossini oder Lortzing sowie in Operetten von Strauss, Zeller und Offenbach. Auch im Musicaltheater hat er bei Jesus Christ Superstar, Anatevka, Phantom der Oper (wo er seine Frau kennenlernte) am Theater a.d. Wien und auf Tourneen durch Europa gespielt. Zehn Sommmer spielte er den Vorsänger in Jedermann bei den Salzburger Festspielen (mit Curd Jürgens und Maximillian Schell als Jedermann). Nach 11 Jahren in den USA, wo er in Chicago/DuPage den Falstaff in den Lustigen Weibern von Windsor spielte und mehrere Meisterklassen an verschiedenen Universitäten in Deutschem Lied gab, ist er nun wieder in Wien. Sein Repertoire umfasst aber auch die Wiener Musik (Wienerlieder), mit denen er früher u.a. mit den Philharmonia Schrammeln im Fernsehen auftrat.