Biography
German bass-baritone André Morsch enjoys an international career in opera and concert, especially in Baroque and Classical repertoire.In 2024-25 he will give house debuts 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. In concert André Morsch will perform Beethoven’s Symphony no 9 at Theater Basel, Mozart’s Mass in c minor with Singakademie Zürich, Bach’s Matthäuspassion with the Phion Orkest, Johannespassion at Festival Saint Denis as well as Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Johann Michael Haydn’s Requiem in c minor with Flemish Radio Choir and Il Giardellino under the baton of Bart van Reyn.
Most recent engagements include Mozart’s Requiem in Romeo Castellucci’s production, conducted by Ivor Bolton, the role of Christus in a staged production of Bach’s Matthäus-Passion and Papageno in Simon McBurney’s acclaimed production of Die Zauberflöte, all at Theater Basel next to Malatesta/Don Pasquale for Opéra de Dijon.
As a former ensemble member of Oper Stuttgart, his roles for this house included Leporello/Don Giovanni, Papageno/Die Zauberflöte, Figaro/Le Nozze di Figaro, Figaro/Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Harlekin/Ariadne auf Naxos, Achille/Giulio Cesare, Schaunard/La bohème, Dandini/La Cenerentola, Cithéron/Platée, Dr. Falke/Die Fledermaus, Der Graf in Boesmans’ Der Reigen, Guglielmo/Cosi fan tutte, Pluto/Orphée aux enfers, Malatesta/Don Pasquale and as Fernando Ormez in the world premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s Erdbeben.Träume, directed by Jossi Wieler.
Elsewhere, André Morsch has performed at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra National du Rhin, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra Comique in Paris, Opéra national de Lorraine, Opéra de Lyon and with Orchestra of the 18century in roles such as Don Giovanni/Don Giovanni, Papageno, Figaro, Guglielmo, the title role in Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione, Pompeo/Benvenuto Cellini, Der Graf in Schreker’s Die Schatzgräber, Jake Wallace/La Fanciulla del West, The Novice’s Friend/Billy Budd, Michelotto Cibo in Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten and Thésée in Enescu’s Oedipe, Plutone in Legrenzi’s La Divisione del Mondo, Adario/Les Indes Galantes, Fritz/Die tote Stadt and Boris in Shostakovich’s Moskva – Cheremushki.
In concert, he has worked with, amongst others, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Poème Harmonique, Cappella Mediterranea, Les Arts Florissants, La Stagione Frankfurt, Het Residentie Orkest, Brussels Philharmonic, the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfónica de Navarra Pamplona, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Akademie für Alte Musik, Prague Symphony Orchestra, RIAS Kammerchor, Balthasar Neumann Ensembles, NDR Vokalensemble, Arion Ensemble Montréal, Orchestra of the 18 Century, Het Gelders Orkest, Noord Nederlands Orkest and Nico and the Navigators and conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Jaap van Zweden, Ingo Metzmacher, James Gaffigan, Thomas Hengelbrock, Hervé Niquet, Christophe Rousset, William Christie, Vincent Dumestre, Carlo Rizzi, Kenneth Montgomery, Marcus Creed, Reinbert de Leeuw, Jan Willem de Vriend, Sylvain Cambreling and Edo de Waart.
With recital partner Julius Drake he has performed at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, Zurich, Stuttgart and elsewhere.
His extensive discography includes Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten with Concerto Köln and Marcus Creed (Carus), Haydn’s L’isola disabitata with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (Pentatone), Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione (Diapason d’Or, DVD of the year 2009/Deutsche Schallplattenkritik), Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Orchestra of the 18th Century, Bach’s Messe in h-moll with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie, Schreker’s Die Schatzgräber and Telemann’s Miriways with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Bernard Labadie (Pentatone).
André Morsch 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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