Born in Revere in 1904, the American baritone Julius Huehn
studied at the Juilliard School, making his début at the Philadelphia Opera
in 1934 and appearing the following year at the New York Metropolitan Opera
as the Herald in Lohengrin. He went on to undertake a number of important
rôles there, ranging from Escamillo in Bizet’s Carmen to John the Baptist
in Richard Strauss’s Salome and the demanding Wagnerian rôle of Wotan.
After war-time military service he retired from the stage and taught at the
Eastman School of Music. He died in 1971.