Biography
The Austrian bass Christoph Seidl was born in 1987. Following voice lessons in his hometown Weitra, he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Ralf Döring, Florian Boesch and Robert Holl. He took part in master classes of Angelika Kirchschlager, Helmut Deutsch and Thomas Hampson and was a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner association.Since the 2016/17 season Seidl is a member of the ensemble of Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich where he performs roles as Sarastro, Baculus (Wildschütz), Sir Giorgio Talbot (Maria Stuarda), Colline and Il Commendatore.
Concerts brought him to venues in Russia (Bolshoi theatre Moscow), The United States (Lincoln Center NYC), China (various), Belgium (Palais de Beaux-arts) and in many cities in German speaking countries.
From 2015 to 2017 he was Member of the young Ensemble at Theater an der Wien where among others he sung roles like Gremin or Don Inigo Gomez (L’heure espagnole) and also came in touch with a great variety of baroque and modern repertoire.
He was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Opernhaus Zürich in the 2013/14 season where he debuted a season earlier in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth from Mzensk.
In summer 2013 he was part of the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival, where he performend Osmin in a production of The Abduction from the Seraglio for children and as a Deputato in Verdi’s Don Carlo.
During his career Seidl worked with conductors such as Nello Santi, Antonio Pappano, Sebastian Weigle, Theodor Currentzis, Fabio Luisi, Thomas Hengelbrock, Bertrand de Billy, René Jacobs or Jean-Christophe Spinosi.
Beside the opera stage he enjoys singing oratorio and song recitals in different languages and styles and has a preference for German Lied from 1800 to 1950.
Artist Website
www.christophseidl.atManagement
Artist Manager
Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-7 76 88 20
Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
| Bach, J.S. | Magnificat |
| Mass B minor | |
| Brahms | Liebeslieder, op. 52 |
| Neue Liebeslieder, op. 65 | |
| Dvorak | Mass in D Major |
| Stabat Mater | |
| Haydn, J. | Große Mariazeller Messe in C Major |
| Missa Sancti Nicolai | |
| Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo, B flat Major | |
| Stabat Mater | |
| The Creation | |
| Haydn, M. | Missa Sancti Hieronymi |
| Hummel | Great Mass in E flat Major |
| Kronsteiner | St John Passion |
| Monteverdi | Vespro della Beata Vergine |
| Mozart | Mentre ti lascio figlia |
| Requiem | |
| Miss brevis, B flat Major | |
| Missa brevis, G Major | |
| Mass in C Major, KV 220 | |
| Mass in C Major, KV 257 | |
| Mass in C Major, KV 258 | |
| Mass in C Major, KV 317 (Coronation Mass) | |
| Vesperae slennes de confessore | |
| Rossini | Stabat Mater |
| Salieri | Requiem in c minor |
| Schubert | Mass in G Major, D 167 |
| Mass in C Major, D 452 | |
| Mass in E flat Major, D 950 | |
| Verdi | Messa di Requiem |
Repertoire Opera
| Beethoven | Fidelio | Rocco |
| Don Ferrando | ||
| 2nd prisoner | ||
| Bellini | La sonnambula | Rodolfo |
| Doderer | Liliom | Arzt |
| Flotow | Martha | Richter |
| Gassmann | Gli Uccelatori | Pierotto |
| Giordano | Andrea Chénier | Maestro di Casa |
| Handel | Rinaldo | Mago |
| Semele | Somnus | |
| Agrippina | Lesbo | |
| Lampe | Der Drache von Penzing | Drache/Händel |
| Lortzing | Der Wildschütz | Baculus |
| Martinu | Alexandre bis | Portrait |
| Milhaud | La Mére coupable | Maître Fal |
| Morse | Frau Schindler | Quartiermeister Schneefeld |
| Zugführer | ||
| Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Antonio |
| Bartolo | ||
| Idomeneo | La Voce | |
| Don Giovanni | Il Commendatore | |
| Masetto | ||
| Die Zauberflöte | Sarastro | |
| Speaker | ||
| 2nd Priest | ||
| 2nd amoured man | ||
| Müller | Die schwarze Frau | Sperber |
| Paisiello | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Notaro |
| Svegliato | ||
| Poulenc | Les Malles de Tirésias | Presto |
| Le Monsieur Barbu | ||
| Puccini | La Bohème | Colline |
| Purcel | King Arthur | Bass |
| Ravel | L'heure Espagnol | Don Inigo Gomez |
| Rossini | Il babriere di Siviglia | Basilio |
| La Cenerentola | Alidoro | |
| Shostakovich | La Macbeth of Mtsensk District | Hausknecht |
| Policeman | ||
| Strauss, R. | Capriccio | Der Haushofmeister |
| Salome | 2nd Soldier | |
| 5th Jew | ||
| Tchaikowsky | Eugene Onegin | Gremin |
| Saretzky | ||
| Verdi | Macbeth | Banco |
| Don Carlo | Sei deputati flamminghi | |
| Rigoletto | Sparafucile | |
| Otello | Araldo | |
| Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Hans Schwarz |
| Lohengrin | 4. Edler |
News
Wolfgang-Wagner-Award in the finale of "Wagnerstimmen" in Karlsruhe
We are very pleased and congratulate Christoph Seidl for winning the “Wolfgang-Wagner-Award” at this year’s prestigious competition “Wagnerstimmen”!Furthermore, we would like to mention some of the roles, that Christoph Seidl will take over at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich: Sarastro/Die Zauberflöte, Commendatore/Don Giovanni, Baculus/Der Wildschütz, Colline/La bohème as well as Giorgio Talbot/Maria Stuarda.
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