Andreas Wolf
German Bass-Baritone Andreas Wolf is one of the most sought-after interpreters on the international opera and concert stages, especially in Baroque and Classical repertoire.
Highlights of the season 2024/25 include performances of Bach’s Messe in h-moll under Leonardo Garcia Alarcon at Festival Bach Montréal, at Verbier Festival and with Sao Paulo Symphony, a tour with Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Ton Koopman performing Handel’s Esther in the Netherlands, Brussels and Budapest, Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin under Vladimir Jurowski as well as with Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Thomanerchor, Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 with Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen on a tour through the Netherlands, Belgium and in Paris, Bach’s Matthäuspassion with Noord Nederlands Orkest as well as several projects with Cappella Mediterranea and concerts with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie in Paris and Berlin.
Andreas Wolf has performed at major opera houses like Teatro Real Madrid, Semperoper Dresden, La Monnaie Brussels, Bayrische Staatsoper München, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Opera national du Rhin Strasbourg, Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, Grand Théâtre de Genève and Oper Stuttgart as well as Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Bregenzer Festdpiele, Innsbrucker Festwochen, Wiener Festwochen and Festival de Beaune in roles such as Figaro/Le Nozze di Figaro, Leporello/Don Giovanni, Papageno/Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo/Cosi fan tutte, Jupiter/Platée, Aeneas/Dido and Aeneas, Zuniga/Carmen, Orbazzano/Tancredi, Falke/Die Fledermaus, Nanni/L’infedelta delusa and Eremit/Der Freischütz.
His extensive concert repertoire includes the major works from Bach and Händel to Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Berlioz up to Igor Stravinsky and Frank Martin.
Andreas Wolf enjoys a particularly close collaboration with Leonardo Garcia Alarcon and Cappella Mediterranea as well as with Ton Koopman and Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Next to these he has worked with conductors such as René Jacobs, Andrea Marcon, Raphaël Pichon, Peter Dijkstra, Jérémie Rhorer, Ivor Bolton, Ingo Metzmacher and Vasily Petrenko and ensembles like Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Orchestre National de Radio France, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Concerto Köln, RIAS Kammerchor, Collegium 1704, Le Concert Spirituel, La Cetra, Il Pomo d’Oro, Het Residentie Orkest, Concert de la Loge, MDR Sinfonieorchester and Hamburger Sinfoniker.
His discography includes C.P.E. Bach’s Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu with the Vlaams Radiokoor (Passacaille), Handel’s Semele with Leonardo García Alarcón (Ricercar), Bach’s Messe in h-moll with the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Peter Dijkstra (BR Klassik), Berlioz’ Messe Solennelle and Händel’s Messias (Alpha), Händel’s Serse (Chaconne), Johann Ludwig’s Trauermusik, Handel’s Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, both with Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Bach cantatas with the Freiburger Barockorchester and Carolyn Sampson, all for Harmonia Mundi.