Gwynne Howell

Tall, warm of voice, and reserved in stage manner, lyric bass Gwynne Howell found his career significantly advanced with his early work with both Benjamin Britten and Georg Solti. Still active in his sixties, Howell pursued twin pathways in opera and concert work, consistently winning good reviews in the latter while achieving his greatest stage successes in roles not requiring a galvanizing stage persona. A fine Wagner singer, he is better suited to such parts as Fasolt, King Marke, and Pogner, rather than to such a hard-edged character as Hunding. In the later stages of his...