The German tenor, Uwe Heilmann, studied in Detmold. 　　Uwe Heilmann made his debut there as Tamino in 1981 and joined the Stuttgart State Opera in 1985. There he rapidly established himself as the house's leading Mozartian tenor with admired performances as Tamino, Don Ottavio and Belmonte. He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1990 as Belmonte, the role with which he also made his Milan’s La Scala debut in 1994.