Biography
Konstantin Wolff studied with D. Litaker at the University of Music in Karlsruhe, Germany, and won first prize in the Mendelssohn Competition in 2004.Opera appearances include Mercurio in L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Opéra de Lyon, Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and Curlew River at the Opéra de Lyon and in Athens, Caronte in L’Orfeo and Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte in Aix-en-Provence, Silvano in La Calisto and Benoît Mernier’s Frühlings Erwachen, both at La Monnaie in Brussels, Achilla in Giulio Cesare at the Gottingen Handel Festival, Orbazzano in Tancredi and Garibaldo in Rodelinda, both at Theater an der Wien, and L’Abbé in Gesualdo by Marc-André Dalbavie at Oper Zurich.
More recently, he sang Don Alfonso in concert performances of Cosi fan tutte, conducted by Teodor Currentzis, at Musikfest Bremen, Konzerthaus Wien and the Lucerne Festival, Don Fernando in Fidelio at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Garibaldo in Handel’s Rodelinda with Il Pomo d’Oro at Versailles and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Opéra national de Montpellier, Conte in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Volksoper Wien, Zoroastro in Orlando at La Monnaie, Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Konzerthaus Dortmund, Plutone in Sasha Waltz’ production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo at Staatsoper Berlin, in Bergen, Baden-Baden and Lille and Le Grand Prètre in Rameau’s Castor et Pollux at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.
Konstantin Wolff regularly works with leading baroque ensembles, such as Concerto Köln, Freiburger Barockorchester, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Kammerorchester Basel, Les Arts Florissants, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Orchestra of the 18th Century, La Scintilla, and renowned symphony orchestras like the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, WDR RSO, NDR RPO, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Orchestre National de Radio France, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Zürcher Kammerorchester and the Orchestra del RAI Turin.
His concert repertoire ranges from Handel and Bach to Brahms’, Dvorak’s and Fauré’s Requiems and Mahler’s Wunderhornlieder. Recent engagements include Bach’s Messe in h-moll with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de Espana, the Johannes-Passion with the English Concert at London’s Wigmore Hall, Haydn’s Jahreszeiten with the MDR-Sinfonieorchester and Radiochor, Handel’s Messiah at the Festival St Denis, Bach’s Matthäus-Passion with the Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de Confessore with Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Beethoven’s Symphony Nr. 9 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko and with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and Peter Dijkstra, Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium and Matthäus-Passion with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (recorded for Harmonia Mundi), Handel’s Belshazzar with the RIAS Kammerchor, Bach’s H-moll Messe and Handel’s Messiah on tour with Les Arts Florissants, Mozart’s Krönungsmesse at the Festival de Beaune, Telemann programmes with Andrea Marcon at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Christus in JS Bach’s Markus-Passion with Jordi Savall in Barcelona, Versailles and Paris and Bach’s Johannes-Passion with John Butt and the Dunedin Consort at the BBC PROMS.
Konstantin Wolff has worked with conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, René Jacobs, Jérémie Rohrer, Andrew Manze, Emmanuel Krivine, Alan Curtis, Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Riccardo Chailly, Manfred Honeck, Marc Minkowski, Teodor Currentzis, Pablo Heras-Casado, Nicolas McGegan, Helmuth Rilling and Michael Schönwandt.
In recital, he has performed throughout Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria, including the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg.
Recordings include his recital disc Victor Hugo en Musique for Harmonia Mundi, Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 with Emmanuel Krivine (Naïve), Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under Riccardo Chailly (Decca) and the Dunedin Consort (Linn Records), Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte with Teodor Currentzis and Musica Aeterna (Sony Classical) and Don Giovanni (Masetto) with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin for Deutsche Grammophon.
Engagements in 2022/23 include Plutone in Sasha Waltz‘ production of Orfeo at Teatro Real Madrid and Don Alfonso in concert performances of Cosi fan tutte with Kammerorchester Basel in Luxembourg, Hamburg and Paris.
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