Sebastian Kohlhepp

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Sebastian Kohlhepp has established himself in recent years on the international opera and concert stages as one of the finest German tenors of his generation being praised for his “irresistible, gleaming” (Opera Magazine) and “distinctive tenor” (Das Opernglas).

In the last few seasons he debuted at Teatro Real Madrid as David/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, at La Scala as Narraboth/Salome, at Oper Köln in the title role of Idomeneo as well as at Bayerische Staatsoper Munich as Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte. He also returned to the Salzburger Festspiele as Flamand/Capriccio after recent successes as David and Manolios/The Greek Passion. As an appreciated Mozart interpreter, he appeared at the Wiener Staatsoper as Tamino/Die Zauberflöte and Belmonte/Die Entführung aus dem Serail and at Opernhaus Zürich as Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni.

Highlights of the season 2024/25 include his return to Oper Köln for a new staged production of Hadyn’s Die Schöpfung under the baton of Marc Minkowski and Schumann’s Paradies und die Peri in a semi-staged production with accentus and Insula orchestra in Paris and Vienna conducted by Laurence Equilbey. In concert he will perform Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 with Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko at Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden, Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with Wiener Symphoniker and Václav Luks as well as with Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin and Vladimir Jurowski, Bruckner’s Mass in f minor with SWR Sinfonieorchester, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Netherlands Philharmonic and Karina Canellakis and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at La Scala conducted by Tugan Sokhiev.

Sebastian Kohlhepp is a former ensemble member of Wiener Staatsoper and Oper Stuttgart and has also appeared at Semperoper Dresden, Palau de les Arts Valencia, Theater an der Wien, Theater Basel, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam and Volksoper Wien under the baton of Andris Nelsons, Christian Thielemann and Vladimir Jurowski, just to name a few.More
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