Konstantin Wolff studied with D. Litaker at the University of Music in Karlsruhe, Germany and in 2004 he won first prize in the Mendelssohn Competition Berlin.
In 2005 he made his debut at the Opéra de Lyon as Mercurio in Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea under William Christie's baton, and was part of the academy “Le jardin des voix“, founded by William Christie’s Les Arts Florissants. Since then he has been seen in Händel’s Rodelinda with Il Complesso Barocco, Händel’s Orlando at Oper Zürich also with William Christie conducting, Britten’s Midsummer Night's Dream and Curlew River at the Opéra de Lyon and in Athens, Caronte in Monteverdi’s L'Orfeo and Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte in Aix-en-Provence, Silvano in Cavalli’s La Calisto and Benoît Mernier’s Frühlings Erwachen both at La Monnaie in Brussels, Achilla in Giulio Cesare in Göttingen and the role of L'abbé in Gesualdo by composer Marc-André Dalbavie at Oper Zürich.
In 2009 he made his Viennese debut as Orbazzano in Rossini’s Tancredi at Theater an der Wien and at the same theatre he sang the part of Garibaldo in Händel’s Rodelinda. Most recently he performed the role of Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Opéra national de Montpellier, Zoroastro in Händel’s Orlando at La Monnaie, Don Alfonso in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, the Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem with NDR-Orchestra Hamburg, Beethoven’s Symphony Nr. 9 with Les Musiciens du Louvre and the role of Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden.
Some of his future engagements include Il conte Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the Volksoper Wien, Don Alfonso in a recording of Cosi fan tutte with Teodor Currentzis, Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Bruno Weil, a series of concerts and a recording of the Matthäus-Passion with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin conducted by René Jacobs and the Johannes Passion with the Ensemble Pygmalion under the baton of Raphaël Pichon.
His concert repertoire includes furthermore the oratorios of Handel and Bach, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Beethoven’s Symphony Nr. 9, Mendelssohn’s Paulus and Elias as well as Mozart’s, Brahms', Dvorak’s and Fauré’s Requiems and Mahler's Wunderhorn Lieder.
He already had the pleasure to work with conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René Jacobs, Jérémie Rohrer, Alan Curtis, Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Marc Minkowski, Teodor Currentzis, Nicolas McGegan, Riccardo Chailly, Manfred Honeck, Helmuth Rilling and Ton Koopman. Stage directors he has worked with include Pierre Audi, Jens-Daniel Herzog, Philipp Himmelmann, Philipp Harnoncourt, Stephen Lawless, Jean-Paul Scarpitta and Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier.
In recitals he performed in many places throughout Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria and was replacing Juliane Banse at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg in 2010.
His first recital solo album named Victor Hugo en musique, together with pianist Trung Sam was released in 2008 on Harmonia Mundi. Other CD releases include Beethoven’s Symphony Nr. 9 with Emmanuel Krivine (Naïve Label), Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig with conductor Riccardo Chailly (Decca) and most recently Don Giovanni (Masetto) with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin for Deutsche Grammophon.
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