Biography
German bass-baritone Markus Marquardt has earned a distinguished reputation in recent years as a compelling interpreter of both the Italian and the German Heldenbariton repertoire.As a long-standing member of the Semperoper Dresden, he has performed some of his most significant roles, such as Abram in the world premiere of Torsten Rasch’s Die andere Frau, Wotan/Das Rheingold, Wanderer/Siegfried, Nekrotzar/Le Grand Macabre, Dr. Schön/Lulu, Jochanaan/Salome, Figaro/Le nozze di Figaro, Leporello/Don Giovanni, Giorgio Germont/La Traviata, Colline/La Bohème, Scarpia/Tosca, Alfio/Cavalleria rusticana, Tonio/I Pagliacci, Orest/Elektra, Peter/Hänsel und Gretel, Iago/Otello, Creon/ Oedipus Rex, Don Pizarro/Fidelio, and the title roles in Cardillac, Macbeth, Der fliegende Holländer, Rigoletto, and Mathis der Maler. In the 2025/26 season, he will perform in Die Zauberflöte, Tosca, and Die Fledermaus, and return to Stadttheater Klagenfurt as Dulcamara in a new production of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore.
Recent career highlights feature his portrayal of Alberich in Wagner’s Siegfried at Oper Leipzig, the title role in Verdi’s Rigoletto at Theater Chemnitz, and acclaimed returns to Stadttheater Klagenfurt as Wanderer in Siegfried and Alberich in Das Rheingold. He also performed at Volksoper Wien in a staged version of Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. At the Semperoper Dresden, he debuted as Alberich in Das Rheingold, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung under the baton of Christian Thielemann, and created the role of Manrique, Graf von Lara, in the world premiere of Detlef Glanert’s Die Jüdin von Toledo. Other recent roles include the title role in Nabucco and Colline in La Bohème.
On the concert stage, Mr Marquardt has performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with both the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Vladimir Jurowski. He also made his house debut as Amfortas in Parsifal at the Opéra National de Paris and portrayed the title role in Der fliegende Holländer at both the National Opera Sofia and Volksoper Wien. Further engagements included Wotan in Die Walküre in Klagenfurt and in concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (also under Jurowski), as well as Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi.
Beyond Dresden, he has appeared as Don Fernando/Fidelio and the Doctor/Wozzeck at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Jochanaan/Salome at the Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro di San Carlo Naples, and Oper Köln, Scarpia/Tosca at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto and in a wide range of leading roles at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, including Rigoletto, Nabucco, Der fliegende Holländer, Amfortas/Parsifal, Wanderer/Siegfried, and Jochanaan/Salome. He has also sung Gurrelieder at De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Jaroslav Prus/The Makropulos Case, Amonasro/Aida, and Cardillac at the Wiener Staatsoper, Amfortas at Opéra National du Rhin, Wotan/Die Walküre and Nabucco at Oper Leipzig, Gianni Schicchi at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and Count Adorno in Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten at the Opéra de Lyon.
Mr Marquardt has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst, Jakob Hrůša, Marc Albrecht, Omer Meir Wellber, Sylvain Cambreling, Simone Young, Tomas Netopil, Cornelius Meister, Alexander Joel, Sebastian Weigle, Markus Poschner, Ulf Schirmer, Asher Fisch, Peter Schneider, Massimo Zanetti, and Michael Boder. His work with esteemed directors includes productions by Peter Stein, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Stefan Herheim, Philipp Himmelmann, Peter Mussbach, Richard Jones, Johannes Schaaf, Tatjana Gürbaca, Calixto Bieito, Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito, and Achim Freyer.
Born in Düsseldorf, Markus Marquardt studied at the Musikhochschule in his hometown.
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