The German bass-baritone Stephan Loges (LOW-gus) came on the scene with major prize wins in the late 1990s and has gone on to a significant concert and recording career in Germany, Britain (where he was partly trained), and the U.S. Loges specializes in core, German Romantic song repertory, but has also performed opera and major choral works. He is one of a relatively small number of German singers who have mastered singing in English.
Loges was born in Dresden, then in East Germany, in 1972. His musical training began in a boys' choir, the Dresdner Kreuzchor, but he did not...