Magnus Dietrich

Worldwide representation

Magnus Dietrich has quickly established himself as one of the most exciting tenors.  His repertoire ranges from Mozart's Tamino and Belmonte to Wagner's Steuermann (Holländer) and Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser) to Strauss' Leukippos, with which he attracted great attention in the new production of Daphne (Guggeis / Castellucci) and in Frankfurt.

Magnus Dietrich will make his MET debut as Jaquino (Fidelio) in the 2024/25 season. He will return to the Semperoper Dresden as Tamino. He will appear as Alfred (Die Fledermaus) under Mark Minkowski at the Bremen Music Festival as well as at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Valencia and other tour stops. He will return to the Staatsoper Berlin as the tenor in Christian Spuck's ballet Winterreise. Magnus Dietrich has been a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble since the 2023/24 season, where he can be seen in the new season as Count Hohenzollern in the new production of Henze's Der Prinz von Homburg, as Emilio in Handel’s Partenope, as Leander in Nielsen's Maskerade and in Der Rosenkavalier. In concert, he will perform the St John Passion with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and take part in the St Matthew Passion with the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra. In Frankfurt, he will sing Mendelssohn's Lobgesang Symphony under the direction of Thomas Guggeis.

One of the highlights of recent years has been his Tamino at the Staatsoper Berlin. The young tenor will appear in this role at many important opera houses in the coming years.

Magnus Dietrich's repertoire covers all eras from baroque to classical, romantic and modern. Under the direction of Thomas Guggeis, this includes Junker Spärlich in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor and Scaramuccio in Ariadne auf Naxos, Erste Parze in Hippolyte et Aricie under Simon Rattle, Ein Wirt in Der Rosenkavalier under Simone Young and Alexander Soddy as well as Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer), Lerma (Don Carlo) and 1st Jude (Salome).

In concert, Magnus Dietrich sang in Elijah under Kirill Petrenko with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra as well as with the Munich Bach Choir and in the Mozart Requiem with the Dresden Kreuzchor. He sang Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri with the Staatskapelle Berlin under Marc Minkowski and also performed it at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Magnus Dietrich is also still very active as a lieder singer, most recently Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch at the Frankfurt Opera.

Magnus Dietrich is a guest at renowned festivals such as the International Hugo Wolf Academy, the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Kissinger Sommer, the Festival de Santes and the Bach Academy France. Concert tours with the soloist ensemble Vox Luminis have also taken him to France, Belgium and the Netherlands. He has a lively collaboration with the conductor Johanna Soller, including as a member of the ‘capella sollertia’ in the concert series ‘Cantate um 1715’.

The Munich tenor studied singing with KS Prof. Andreas Schmidt at the Munich University of Music and Theatre and privately with Hartmut Elbert. He was a member of the opera stuido of the Berlin State Opera. Masterclasses with Piotr Beczala, Andrew Watts, Neil Shicoff, Bo Skovhus and Hedwig Fassbender rounded off his training. Magnus Dietrich is a winner of the German National Singing Competition and a scholarship holder of the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation and is the winner of the Brixen Classics Young Artists Award 2022.

A CD of Brahms duets with pianist Doriana Tchakarova and Felicitas and Judith Erb was released on the MDG label in May 2022.  

2024/25

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