Sebastian Kohlhepp

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, La Scala, Opernhaus Zürich, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Palau de les Arts Valencia, Semperoper Dresden and Salzburger Festspiele in roles such as Flamand/Capriccio, David/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Manolios/The Greek Passion, Walther/Tannhäuser, Narraboth/Salome, Ferrando/Cosi fan tutte, Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni and Tamino/Die Zauberflöte under the baton of Andris Nelsons, Christian Thielemann and Vladimir Jurowski, just to name a few. Last season he debuted in the title role of Idomeneo at Oper Köln.
Highlights of the season 24/25 include his return to Oper Köln for a new staged production of Hadyn’s Die Schöpfung under 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 under 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 Theater an der Wien, Theater Basel, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam and Volksoper Wien.
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 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.