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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.
Equally in demand in concert he has worked with orchestras and ensembles such as Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Münchner Philharmoniker, Akademie für Alte Musik, Mozarteumorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, Collegium Vocale Gent, SWR Symphonieorchester and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and conductors such as Teodor Currentzis, Kent Nagano, Manfred Honeck, François-Xavier Roth, Ivor Bolton, René Jacobs, Pablo Heras Casado, Philippe Herreweghe, Peter Dijkstra and Leonardo García Alarcón performing the major works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Mendelssohn et al.
Numerous CD, DVD and radio recordings document Sebastian Kohlhepp’s versatile work. Most recently, a new recording of Bach’s Messe in h-moll with the RIAS Kammerchor and Akademie für Alte Musik under the baton of René Jacobs was released on Harmonia Mundi in 2022. Kohlhepp’s Lied debut album “Von Sagen und Helden” co-produced with SWR Stuttgart and featuring works by Schumann, Liszt and Emil Sjörgen was released in 2023.
Opera
Composer | Work | Role |
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Beethoven | Fidelio | Jaquino |
Berlioz | Les Troyens | Helenus/Hylas |
Bizet | Carmen | Remendado |
Boesmans | Reigen | Der junge Herr |
Britten | Albert Herring | Albert Herring |
Cherubini | Medea | Jason |
Händel | Alcina | Oronte |
Händel | Alessandro | Leonato |
Händel | Ariodante | Lurcanio |
Händel | Rinaldo | Aroldo |
Händel | The Triumph of Time and Truth | Pleasure |
Haydn | Lo Speziale | Mengone |
Janáček | Katja Kabanova | Kudrjáš |
Jomelli | Il Vologeso | Lucio Vero |
Künneke | Der Vetter aus Dingsda | Erster Fremder |
Lehár | Das Land des Lächelns | Gustl |
Lehár | Giuditta | Pierrino |
Lortzing | Der Wildschütz | Baron Kronthal |
Martinů | The Greek Passion | Manolios |
Monteverdi | Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria | Eurimaco |
Mozart | Cosi fan tutte | Ferrando |
Mozart | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Belmonte |
Mozart | Don Giovanni | Don Ottavio |
Mozart | Idomeneo | Idomeneo |
Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Don Basilio |
Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | Tamino |
Mozart | Zaide | Gomatz |
Offenbach | Ritter Blaubarth | Prinz Saphir |
Schwemmer | Robin Hood | Robin Hood |
Strauß | Die Fledermaus | Alfred |
Strauss | Ariadne auf Naxos | Brighella |
Strauss | Capriccio | Flamand |
Strauss | Salome | Narraboth, 1.Jude |
Tchaikovsky | Eugen Onegin | Lensky |
Wagner | Der fliegende Holländer | Steuermann |
Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | David |
Wagner | Parsifal | 3.Knappe |
Wagner | Das Rheingold | Froh |
Wagner | Tannhäuser | Walther |
Wagner | Tristan und Isolde | Stimme eines jungen Seemanns |
Weber | Peter Schmoll | Karl Pirkner |
Concert
Composer | Work | |
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Bach, C.Ph.E. | Magnificat | |
Bach, Johann Ludwig | Trauermusiken | |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Johannespassion | Evangelist/Arien |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Matthäuspassion | Evangelist/Arien |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Weihnachtsoratorium | |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Messe in h-Moll | |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Osteroratorium | |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Magnificat | |
Bach, Johann Sebastian | Cantatas (all) | |
Beethoven | Symphony No. 9 | |
Beethoven | Missa solemnis | |
Beethoven | Messe in C-Dur | |
Beethoven | Christus am Ölberge | |
Bruckner | Messe in f-Moll | |
Bruckner | Te Deum | |
Bruckner | Missa solemnis | |
Bruckner | Requiem | |
Brunckhorst | Die Weihnachtsgeschichte | |
Distler | Die Weihnachtsgeschichte | |
Dvorák | Stabat Mater | |
Dvorák | Messe in D-Dur | |
Elgar | The Dream of Gerontius | |
Gounod | Cäcilienmesse | |
Händel | The Messiah | |
Händel | The Triumph of Time and Truth | Pleasure |
Händel | Saul | |
Händel | Jephta | |
Händel | Ode for St. Cecilia's Day | |
Händel | Brockes-Passion | Evangelist |
Händel | Dixit Dominus | |
Hasse | Il sogno di Scipione | |
Haydn | Die Schöpfung | |
Haydn | Die Jahreszeiten | |
Haydn | Stabat Mater | |
Haydn | Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze | |
Haydn | Cäcilienmesse | |
Haydn | Grosse Orgelsolomesse | |
Haydn | Nelsonmesse | |
Haydn | Paukenmesse | |
Haydn | Theresienmesse | |
Haydn | Salve Regina in g-Moll | |
Haydn, Michael | Requiem | |
Herzogenberg | Die Geburt Christi | |
Mahler | Messe in c-Moll | |
Martin | Krönungsmesse | |
Martin | Le Vin herbé | Tristan |
Martin | In terra pax | |
Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Elias | |
Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Paulus | |
Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Lobgesang | |
Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Die erste Walpurgisnacht | |
Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Psalm 95 - Kommt lasst uns anbeten | |
Monteverdi | Marienvesper | |
Monteverdi | Selva morale e spirituale | |
Mozart | Requiem | |
Mozart | Spatzenmesse | |
Mozart | Waisenhausmesse | |
Mozart | Vesperae solennes de Confessore | |
Schubert | Messe in As-Dur | |
Schubert | Messe in B-Dur | |
Schubert | Messe in C-Dur | |
Schubert | Messe in Es-Dur | |
Schubert | Magnificat | |
Schumann, Robert | Das Paradies und die Peri | |
Schumann, Robert | Missa sacra in c-Moll | |
Schütz | Musikalische Exequien | |
Schütz | Johannespassion | |
Schütz | Die sieben Worte Jesu am Kreuze | |
Steffani | Stabat Mater | |
Telemann | Durchsuche Dich, o stolzer Geist | |
Telemann | Ich weiß, dass mein Erlöser lebt | |
Telemann | Wertes Zion sei getrost | |
Zelenka | Missa Dei Patris | |
Zelenka | Missa Dei Filii | |
Zelenka | Te Deum Laudamus |
Lieder
Composer | Work | Role |
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Brahms | Liebeslieder - Walzer, op. 52 | |
Brahms | Neue Liebeslieder - Walzer, op. 65 | |
Britten | Serenade op 31 for tenor, horn und strings | |
Britten | Illuminations, op. 18 | |
Britten | Hölderlin Fragmente | |
Britten | Purcell-Realizations | |
Britten | 7 Songs aus Orpheus Britannicus | |
Mahler | Das Lied von der Erde | |
Mendelssohn Bartholdy | Heine-Lieder | |
Schumann | Dichterliebe, op. 48 | |
Schumann | Liederkreis, op. 24 | |
Schumann | Liederkreis, op. 39 | |
Sjögren | Sechs Lieder aus Julius Wolffs 'Tannhäuser', op. 12 | |
Zender | Schuberts Winterreise |
Von Sagen und Helden
Lieder von R. Schumann, F. Liszt, Emil Sjögren
Sebastian Kohlhepp, tenor
Andreas Frese, piano
Ars (11152136)
R.Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Staatskapelle Dresden, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor
Christian Thielemann, cond
with Georg Zeppenfeld, Klaus Florian Vogt, Jacqueline Wagner, Adrian Eröd et al
Profil/Edition Günter Hänssler (PH 20059)
Live-Recording from Salzburg Easter Festival 2019More
L. van Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge
Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysees
Philippe Herreweghe, cond
w Eleanor Lyons, Thomas Bauer
Phi (11062514)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa Solemnis op.123
Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Kammerchor Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius, cond
with Johanna Winkel, Sophie Harmsen, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Arttu Kataja
Carus (9006828)More
J.S. Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium
Gaechinger Cantorey
Hans-Christoph Rademann, cond
with Regula Mühlemann, Anna Lucia Richter, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Michael Nagy
Carus (7794934)More
C.M. von Weber: Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Roberto Paternostro, cond
with Paul Armin Edelmann, Thorsten Grümbel, Ilona Revolskaya, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Christoph Seidl et al
Capriccio (9379545)More
F.Schubert: Sämtliche Chorwerke für Männerchor Vol.4 "Die Einsiedelei"
Camerata Musica Limburg
Jan Schumacher, cond
with Christoph Pregardien, Andreas Weller, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Jens Hamann, Adolph Seidel, Tilman Hoppstock, Andreas Frese
Genuin (8732654)More
J.S.Bach: Johannes-Passion
RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Rene Jacobs, cond
with Werner Güra, Sunhae Im, Benno Schachtner, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Johannes Weisser
harmonia mundi (8595782)More
F.Schubert: Sämtliche Chorwerke für Männerchor Vol.5 "Elysium"
Camerata Musica Limburg
Jan Schumacher, cond
Tilman Hoppstock, guitar
Andreas Frese, piano
with Christoph Pregardien, Sebastian Kohlhepp
Genuin (9127447)More
G.F.Händel: Brockes Passion
NDR Chor, Festspielorchester Göttingen
Laurence Cummings, cond
with Johannette Zomer, Ana Maria Labin, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Rupert Charlesworth, Tobias Berndt, David Erler et al
Accent (9127366)More
A.Bruckner: Missa solemnis B-dur
RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Lukasz Borowicz, cond
with Johanna Winkel, Sophie Harmsen, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Ludwig Mittelhammer
Accentus (8097324)More
N.Jommelli: Il Vologeso (DVD)
Staatsorchester Stuttgart
Gabriele Ferro, cond
with Ana Durlovski, Igor Durlovsky, Catriona Smith, Sophie Marilley, Helene Schneiderman, Sebastian Kohlhepp et al
Naxos (8160704)More