Edited sentence: Also his elocution, phrasing, and acting were very smart.Besides the above-listed roles, he is on record as Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier, the Heerrufer in Lohengrin, Ottavio in The Coronation of Poppea, and if you search hard enough, young Wotan in Das Rheingold.He was cast in roles usually reserved for deeper, darker voices because his technique was so relaxed, well-projected, and free.His non-operatic recordings include Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony, and Brahms' German Requiem.Wiener was one of the highest and brightest of the successful heldenbaritones of the 1950s and 60s