Richard Jeffrey Salter (

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, Surrey, on 12 November 1943 –

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, 1 February 2009) was an English baritone, known as a founder member of

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before moving to Austria and Germany to take leading roles in many contemporary operas. After the King's 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

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's '' Requiem for a Young Poet'', Schoenberg's ''

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'', the baritone lead in operas by

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and

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, the main character K. in Aribert Reimann's ''Das Schloß'' after Kafka (1996), and Philip Glass' ''Waiting for the Barbarians'' (2005).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Salter, Richard 1943 births 2009 deaths English operatic baritones 20th-century English male opera singers Choral Scholars of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge