Biography
German bass-baritone André Morsch is a regular guest on international opera and concert stages, especially sought-after in Baroque and Classical repertoire.In the 2026–27 season he will appear as Blansac in Rossini’s La scala di seta with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich under Jan Willem de Vriend, perform Mozart’s Krönungsmesse and Tuma’s Te Deum under Shunske Sato and Cantata No. 5 from Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium under Benjamin Goodson, both with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Choir in Utrecht, Bach’s Matthäus-Passion with philharmonie zuidnederland and Orkest Phion, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with Collegium Musicum Bruneck and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Nürnberger Symphoniker and Jonathan Darlington.
Most recent highlights include the title role of Le nozze di Figaro and Adam in a new staged production of Haydn’s Die Schöpfung under the baton of Marc Minkowski, both at Oper Köln, his house and role debut as Sancho in Massenet’s Don Quichotte at Staatstheater Darmstadt and Malatesta in Don Pasquale at Opéra de Dijon.
Over the last few seasons, André Morsch has been a frequent guest at Theater Basel in roles including Papageno in Simon McBurney’s acclaimed production of Die Zauberflöte, Sancho Pansa in Thom Luz’s pastiche Don Quijote, the bass part in Romeo Castellucci’s staging of Mozart’s Requiem, conducted by Ivor Bolton, and Christus in a staged Matthäus-Passion, conducted by Allesandro de Marchi.
A former ensemble member of Oper Stuttgart, he has appeared there as 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.
Guest engagements have led him to De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Opernhaus Zürich, Opéra National du Rhin, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra Comique and Opéra de Lyon 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 platform, he has performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Les Arts Florissants, Les Talens Lyriques, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensembles Brussels Philharmonic, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and many other leading ensembles, collaborating with conductors including Frans Brüggen, William Christie, Christophe Rousset, Sylvain Cambreling, Ingo Metzmacher, and Thomas Hengelbrock.
In recital, he has appeared with pianist Julius Drake at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, as well as in Zürich, Stuttgart and throughout the Netherlands.
André Morsch’s extensive discography includes Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten (Carus), L’isola disabitata (Pentatone), Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Orchestra of the 18th Century (Glossa), Bach’s Mass in B minor with Les Arts Florissants (Harmonia Mundi), Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione (Alpha) and Schreker’s Die Schatzgräber (Challenge).
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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