Soloist

Gerhard Siegel

The German tenor Gerhard Siegel started his musical career as an instrumentalist and composer. After completing his singing training with Liselotte Becker-Egner at the Augsburg Conservatory, he made his debut in 1998 at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. From 1999 to 2006, he was a member of the ensemble at the Trier City Theatre and the Nuremberg State Theatre, where he was able to extend his repertoire in the dramatic and Heldentenor range in particular. He sang, for example, the title roles in »Parsifal« and »Siegfried«, Bacchus (»Ariadne auf Naxos«), Herodes (»Salome«), Florestan (»Fidelio«), Laca (»Jenůfa«) and Sergej (»Lady Macbeth von Mzensk«) plus Mephistopheles (Busoni's »Doktor Faust«), Tom Rakewell (»The Rake's Progress«), Alfredo Germont (»La traviata«) and Walther von Stolzing (»Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg«).

Since 2006, Gerhard Siegel has worked on a freelance basis and has made guest appearances in performances including Hindemith's »Das Nusch-Nuschi« under Gerd Albrecht and as Max in »Jonny spielt auf« in Cologne, as Herodes at the Vienna State Opera, in Brussels, Barcelona, London and Madrid, as the Captain (»Wozzeck«) at the Teatro Real Madrid and at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, in Zemlinsky's »Der Traumgörge« at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and as Sellem (»The Rake’s Progress«) at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera New York as Mime (»Rheingold« and »Siegfried«) and also sang the role at the Bayreuth Festival, in »Der Ring des Nibelungen« at the Cologne Opera under the baton of Jeffrey Tate, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and in Valencia in the production by La Fura del Baus, among others. A further artistic high point was Schönberg's »Gurre-Lieder« on a tour with Michael Gielen and the SWR-Symphony Orchestra and with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Metha. In spring 2014, Gerhard Siegel appeared as Prince Schuysky (»Boris Godunow«) in Munich and in the title role of »Lohengrin« in Augsburg.