The American bass-baritone, John Ostendorf, was born in 1945 and studied at the Oberlin College Ohio as well as with the teachers Margaret Harshaw, Julia Drobner and Daniel Ferro in New York. John Ostendorf made his debut in 1969 at the Chautauqua Opera as Commendatore in Don Giovanni and appreaed then with many American opera companies, among other things at the operas of San Francisco, Houston/Texas, Baltimore, Philadelphia (1985 Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos by R. Strauss), and in Toronto. In Amsterdam he made guest appearance in 1979 in the premiere of the opera Winter Cruise… read more
The American bass-baritone, John Ostendorf, was born in 1945 and studied at the Oberlin College Ohio as well as with the teachers Margaret Harshaw, Julia Drobner and Daniel Ferro in New York. John Ostendorf made his debut in 1969 at the Chautauqua Opera as Commendatore in Don Giovanni and app… read more
The American bass-baritone, John Ostendorf, was born in 1945 and studied at the Oberlin College Ohio as well as with the teachers Margaret Harshaw, Julia Drobner and Daniel Ferro in New York. John Ostendorf made his debut in 1969 at the Chautauqua Opera as Commendatore in Don Giovanni and appreaed then with many American opera companies, among other things at the… read more