Helmut Pampuch

Helmut Pampuch (30 January 1940 – 20 March 2008) was a German opera singer.

Pampuch, a native of Upper Silesia, was a member, from 1973 to 2005, of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, where he sang numerous parts of the tenor buffo repertoire, for instance Dr. Blind in Die Fledermaus.^[1] His most famous role was that of Mime in Patrice Chéreau's production of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen 1976 at the Bayreuth Festival.^[2]

He died in 2008, aged 68, after long illness.^[1]