Background
Shibata Mutsumu was born in 1913, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
Shibata Mutsumu was born in 1913, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
He graduated from the Tokyo Academy of Music (1938).
Became director of the Opera Section, Arts University. After World War II, he has been active as an opera singer. At first he belonged to the Nagato-Miho Opera Company and often played as a guest performer of the Fujiwara Opera Company (since 1950).