- Danish tenor. Before singing, he studied Chemistry at the Technical College in his natal city, where he graduated as an engineer with honors. His official debut came in Neustrelitz in 1921 as Don Jose in Carmen.
- Shortly after the Second World War, he was abducted in Berlin and deported to Russia. Following his release, he settled down in Wien and established himself as an engineer in the chemical industry. Yet, singing was very much at the core of his heart, and he resumed his career in 1949 at the Volksoper and the Staatsoper in Wien.
- Before he launched his artistic career he studied chemical at the Technical College and finished it as an engineer with honors.
- At one point he also led a theatre for operetta in Wien, where he himself starred as the Prince Sou Sou-Chong in Lehár's Land des Lächelns.
- Because of his closeness to the NS regime (Joining the NSDAP in 1933, guest at Hermann Göring's wedding in 1935, participation at NS events and the inclusion to the so-called "Gottbegnadeten" list by Adolf Hitler in 1944) he was abducted in Berlin and deported to Russia. Roswaenge shared his fate with many other artists of that time who nearly didn't have an opportunity to continue their artistic career without contact to the power in Germany at that time. Politically he was described as rather naive. After his release he went to Spain where he earned his living with his original profession in the chemical industry till 1948. In 1948 he went to Switzerland and afterwards to Vienna and he was able to continue his artistic career.
- From 1955 he also sang with the Berlin Staatsoper and was appointed Member of Honour.
- Because of his popularity the film business became aware of him and in 1932 he made his debut in front of the camera for "Der Knalleffekt" (1932) with Ferdinand Bonn and Gustav Püttjer.
- He continued to sing until May 30, 1959 (when he gave what was billed as his farewell concert at Vienna's Great Musikvereinssaal), singing arias from Turandot as Calàf, Aida as Radamès and Il trovatore as Manrico. His voice showed little sign of age; it was still warm and sonorous throughout its range, and brilliant and lustrous in its upper register. Indeed, he could produce an easy and full-blooded high D during his vocal prime. This can be heard in one of his most celebrated recordings, the Postillon's Song ("Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire") from Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam.
- Remaining active till to his death he died in Munich in 1972.
- After private singing lessons he made his opera debut in 1921 as Don Jose in the opera "Carmen" in Neustrelitz. In the next years followed performances at numerous other operas and stage, finally he came to Berlin in 1929 and to Vienna in 1930.
- In 1951 he received the Gold Ring of the Staatsoper, an honour he only shares with soprano Birgit Nilsson.
- A recording of his solo tenor singing in a 1938 performance of Verdi's Requiem with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini has been released on CD as well.
- In voice, he was largely self-taught, but was for a time under the guidance of his wife to be, the Hungarian soprano Ilonka Holndonner, whom he met in Schwerin, Germany, where Roswaenge was singing. She immediately recognized his potential and organized a successful concert performance with herself and the tenor.
- He widened his activity to whole Europe during the 30s and his versatile offer gave him the opportunity to interpret singing roles of very different genres.
- Helge Roswaenge published two books, his biography "Lache Bajazzo" (46) and "Mach es besser mein Sohn" (63).
- Rosvaenge appeared in a wide spectrum of roles ranging from Mozart to Weber, from Verdi to Puccini. He sang with "a steely voice, brilliant high notes and insistent declamation throughout its scale" which was "brilliant and lustrous in its top register", according to Luiz Eduardo Goncalves Gabarra. He was equally impressive as Andrea Chénier and was also an acclaimed and exciting Radamès and Otello, in which latter role he was often heard on German radio.
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