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Claude Heater
Claude Heater (born October 25, 1927), is an American opera singer and writer on religion. He began his career as a concert baritone in the United States in 1954. He then sang as a baritone with opera houses in Europe from 1956 to 1961. He retrained his voice as a tenor, and from 1964 on had great success in the dramatic tenor repertoire at major theatres internationally. After retiring from the stage in the 1970s, he devoted his time to the study of religion. He is also known for portraying the role of Jesus (uncredited in the titles) in the 1959 film classic ''Ben-Hur''.
==Early life and career as a baritone==
Born in Oakland, California, Heater grew up in a Mormon family and at the age 19 served as missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He then served in the United States Armed Forces, after which he worked as an usher in a theatre in Los Angeles while studying to be an opera singer. He moved to New York City to study singing further and in 1951 he made his Broadway debut as a singer and juggler in the original cast of ''Top Banana''. In 1952, he was the baritone member of the trio in the world premiere at Brandeis University of Leonard Bernstein's ''Trouble in Tahiti''.〔Cast listed at (Opera America: North American Works Directory )〕
Heater began his career as a classical singer in the United States in 1954, singing baritone parts in oratorios and other concert works. His first opera performances were given at Theater Basel in 1956-1957. He was then committed to the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1957–1959 and the Vienna State Opera from 1959-1961. Among the roles he sang during this portion of his career were Escamillo in Georges Bizet's ''Carmen'', Germont in Giuseppe Verdi's ''La traviata'', Sharpless in Giacomo Puccini's ''Madama Butterfly'', and Silvio in Ruggero Leoncavallo's ''Pagliacci''.〔 His final performances as a baritone were in 1961 with the San Francisco Opera: Demetrius in Benjamin Britten's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', the boyar Schelkalov in Mussorgsky's ''Boris Godunov'', Henry Ashton in Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', Ping in Puccini's ''Turandot'' and Tom Henney in the premiere of Norman Dello Joio's ''Blood Moon''.〔(Details from SFO's performance archive )〕
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