Known for his incredibly powerful tenor voice and long-running performances as
the bold-faced heroes of composer
Richard Wagner's best-known,
"long-haired" operas, including "Tristan and Isolde" (223), "Tannhauser"
(144), "Die Walkure" (183), "Lohengrin" (106), "Siegfried" (128) and
"Parsifal" (81).