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Theo Adam

1926 - 2019

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Theo Adam (1 August 1926 – 10 January 2019) was a German operatic bass-baritone and bass singer who had an international career in opera, concert and recital from 1949. He was a member of the Staatsoper Dresden for his entire career, and sang at the Bayreuth Festival from 1952 to 1980. He particularly excelled in portraying roles by Richard Wagner, especially Wotan in Der Ring des Nibelungen, which he also performed at the Metropolitan Opera, among others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theo Adam has received more than 135,819 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Theo Adam is the 899th most popular singer (down from 878th in 2019), the 3,739th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,536th in 2019) and the 40th most popular German Singer.

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  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Theo Adam ranks 899 out of 4,381. Before him are Serhat, Kirsti Sparboe, Alain Bashung, Kićo Slabinac, Randy Meisner, and Neneh Cherry. After him are Damo Suzuki, Hande Yener, Luiz Gonzaga, Éva Marton, Benny Moré, and Vince Neil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Theo Adam ranks 246. Before him are Baltazar, Julie Adams, Salvador Jorge Blanco, Driss Chraïbi, Richard Yates, and Fernando J. Corbató. After him are Janet Asimov, Heriberto Herrera, Stanley Cavell, Tadeusz Konwicki, Ladislav Pavlovič, and Yevgeny Yevstigneyev. Among people deceased in 2019, Theo Adam ranks 234. Before him are Luciano De Crescenzo, Carlo Maria Abate, Julie Adams, Ram Dass, Fernando J. Corbató, and Ndaye Mulamba. After him are Robert Waseige, Janet Asimov, Eva Mozes Kor, David Hedison, Anémone, and Vojtěch Jasný.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Theo Adam ranks 3,739 out of 7,253. Before him are Theodore Levitt (1925), Felix Draeseke (1835), Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708), Holger Meins (1941), Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (1810), and Christine Kirch (1697). After him are Joseph Helffrich (1890), Rosi Mittermaier (1950), Jan Boeckhorst (1604), Friedrich von Huene (1875), Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1592), and Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780).

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Among SINGERS In Germany

Among singers born in Germany, Theo Adam ranks 40. Before him are Rob Pilatus (1965), Roy Black (1943), Hermann Prey (1929), Renate Müller (1906), Reinhard Mey (1942), and Liane Augustin (1927). After him are Inge Borkh (1921), Blixa Bargeld (1959), Elisabeth Schumann (1888), Walter Andreas Schwarz (1913), Irmgard Seefried (1919), and Margot Hielscher (1919).

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