Wolfgang Koch

Worldwide representation

Wolfgang Koch is one of the most important dramatic baritones in the opera world.

In the 2024/25 season, Wolfgang Koch will make a guest appearance as Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde) at the San Francisco Opera. He will return to the Vienna State Opera as Borromeo (Palestrina). At the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, he will make his role debuts as Alfio and Tonio in the new production of Cavalleria rusticana and I Pagliacci. He will also return as the Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Telramund (Lohengrin).

Wolfgang Koch's repertoire includes the great baritone roles of the German and Italian repertoire. He sang Wotan / Wanderer (Der Ring des Nibelungen) both at the Bayreuth Festival and in Munich under Kirill Petrenko. As Hans Sachs (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) he was also heard at the Munich Opera Festival under the baton of Kirill Petrenko. He has already sung Amfortas and Klingsor in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and the Salzburg Easter Festival. He made his MET debut in 2019 as Scarpia (Tosca). He has appeared as Falstaff at both the Bavarian and Vienna State Operas. Wolfgang Koch sang Dallapiccola's Il prigioniero under Kirill Petrenko with the Berlin Philharmonic.

One of his parade roles is Barak (Frau ohne Schatten), which he sang in a new production of the Vienna State Opera under the baton of Christian Thielemann and under Kirill Petrenko in Baden-Baden, among others. He also made guest appearances in this role in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and at the Salzburg Festival. The Bavarian Kammersänger celebrated a great success as Michele in Puccini's Il trittico at the Bavarian State Opera. At the Vienna State Opera he sang the title role in von Einem's opera Dantons Tod in a new production. His varied repertoire also includes Holländer (Der fliegende Holländer), Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde), Telramund (Lohengrin), Mandryka (Arabella), Graf (Capriccio), Jochanaan (Salome), Pizarro (Fidelio), Förster (Schlaues Füchslein), Prometheus (Die Vögel), the title roles in Mathis der Maler and Lear, Borromeo and Morone (Palestrina) as well as Doktor Faust by Busoni.

In addition to the houses mentioned above, Wolfgang Koch has also appeared at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Opéra de Paris, the Frankfurt Opera, the Theater an der Wien and in Tokyo.

In addition to his operatic activities, Wolfgang Koch is a regular guest on the world's most important concert stages, for example with Schoenberg's Jakobsleiter with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko. Numerous CD and DVD releases exist, including Der Ring des Nibelungen from Hamburg (Alberich), the productions Lear (Reimann) and Palestrina (Pfitzner) from Frankfurt, Palestrina, Doktor Faust and Lohengrin from Munich, Parsifal and Frau ohne Schatten from Salzburg and Parsifal (Barenboim and Tcherniakov) from Berlin.

2024/25

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