Biography
German bass-baritone André Morsch enjoys an international career in opera and concert, with a strong focus on Baroque and Classical repertoire.In the season 2025-26 he will give his house and role debut as Sancho in Massenet’s Don Quichotte at Staatstheater Darmstadt, return to Oper Köln for the title role of Le nozze di Figaro as well as to Theater Basel as Papageno/Die Zauberflöte and as Sancho Pansa in Thom Luz’ new pastiche Don Quijote. In concert he will join, among others, the Flemish Radio Choir for Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem.
Recent highlights include his house debut at Oper Köln in a new staged production of Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with Marc Minkowski and at Teatru Manoel Malta in the title role of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. At Theater Basel he performed Mozart’s Requiem in Romeo Castellucci’s production under Ivor Bolton, sang Christus in a staged Matthäus-Passion and appeared as Papageno in Simon McBurney’s acclaimed Zauberflöte. He also sang Malatesta/Don Pasquale at Opéra de Dijon.
A former ensemble member of Oper Stuttgart, his repertoire there included Leporello/Don Giovanni, Papageno, Figaro/Le Nozze di Figaro, Figaro/Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Harlekin/Ariadne auf Naxos, Schaunard/La bohème, Dandini/La Cenerentola, Dr. Falke/Die Fledermaus, Guglielmo/Cosi fan tutte, Malatesta and Fernando Ormez in the world premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s Erdbeben.Träume.
Mr. Morsch has also appeared at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra National du Rhin, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra Comique, Opéra de Lyon, and with the Orchestra of the 18th Century, in roles ranging from Don Giovanni and Guglielmo to more unusual parts such as the title role in Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione, Michelotto Cibo in Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten, and Plutone in Legrenzi’s La Divisione del Mondo.
On the concert stage, he has performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Les Arts Florissants, Les Talens Lyriques, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Brussels Philharmonic, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and others, under conductors including Frans Brüggen, William Christie, Christophe Rousset, Sylvain Cambreling, Ingo Metzmacher, and Thomas Hengelbrock.
With recital partner Julius Drake he has performed at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, Zurich, Stuttgart and elsewhere.
André Morsch’s extensive discography features acclaimed recordings such as Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten (Carus), L’isola disabitata (Pentatone), Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Orchestra of the 18th Century, and Bach’s Mass in B minor with Les Arts Florissants. He appears on several award-winning albums, including Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione and Schreker’s Die Schatzgräber.
He studied with Margreet Honig at the Amsterdam Conservatory and received the 1st Prize and Hermann-Reutter-Prize at the prestigious ‘Internationaler Wettbewerb für Liedkunst’ in Stuttgart and the Prix Bernac from the Académie Ravel. He is a former member of William Christie’s Le Jardin des Voix.
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