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Donald Grobe (1929-1986) was an American lyric tenor who sang at the Deutsche Oper Berlin during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
He made his début in Chicago, in 1952, in Rigoletto. He sang at his first Salzburg Festival in 1962. He joined the Deutsche Oper in 1960, and sang there until his death, as well as in other important opera houses, mostly in Europe but also at the Metropolitan Opera occasionally. He created several lyric tenor roles in new operas such as Death in Venice and Der Junge Lord.
He is on record as Froh in Herbert von Karajan's studio recording of Das Rheingold; also on video as Don Ottavio in Ferenc Fricsay's German-translation performance of Don Giovanni from 1961.