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Biography

The Austrian bass Christoph Seidl studied under Ralf Döring, Robert Hall, and Florian Bösch at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and took master courses with Angelika Kirchschlager, Thomas Hampson und Helmut Deutsch. He also was a scholarship holder in 2011 at the Richard Wagner Verband. At the 2018 competition of „Wagner-Stimmen“, he was bestowed with the 2nd award.

His opera debut was a new production of Schastakowitsch’s „Lady Macbeth von Mzensk“ at the Opernhaus Zürich, after which he was permanently employed at the Opernstudio in Zurich for the season of 2013/14. Christoph Seidl debuted as a member of the Young Singers Project 2013 in Salzburg as Osmin/ Entführung aus dem Serail (a shortened version for children) at the Salzburger Festspiele. Furthermore, he played as Deputato/ Don Carlo at the Große Festpielhaus.

In 2014 he relocated to the Junge Ensemble des Theaters an der Wien, where he, amongst other things, sang as Gremlin at the Wiener Kammeroper and took on several roles at the Große Haus. During this time he established himself as a song and concert singer, as well as in the area of Church Music with a large repertoire that incompasses Hadyn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and contemporary repertoire. Concerts also brought him to Brussels (Palais des Beux Arts „Bozar“), Moscow (Bolshio) and New York (Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC).

From 2016 to 2020 Christoph Seidl was part of the ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich where he embodied roles such as Sarastro/ Die Zauberflöte, Commendatore/ Don Giovanni, Baculus/ Der Wildschütz, Alidoro/ La Cenerentola, Sparafucile/ Rigoletto or Colline/ La Bohème. Playing the role of Bacalus/ Der Wildschütz he featured at the Staatstheater Kassel and was to be heard at the Theater an der Wien as Hans Bast in „Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn“ by Carl Maria von Weber.

Christoph Seidl has worked with conductors such as Nello Santo, Fabio Luisi, Sebastian Weigle, Theodor Currentztis, Antonio Pappano, René Jacobs, Thomas Hangelbrock and Bertrand de Billy, as well as directors such as Claus Guth, Andreas Homoki, Robert Carson, Peter Stein, Tatjana Gürbaca, Herbert Föttinger and Michael Sturminger.

During the season of 2020/2021 Seidl relocated to the Aalto Theater Essen, where he already was meant to debut as a guest in the role of Bartolo in Le Nozze de Figaro*. In the past season he was to be heard in Essen portraying roles such as Eremit/ Freischütz, Simone/ Trittico, Commendatore/ Don Giovanni and Graf Waldner/ Arabella.

Before his debut at Oper Köln for this season, Christoph Seidl also celebrates another important Wagner role debut as Daland/ Fliegender Holländer at the Felsenbühne in Rathen. At the Oper Köln he is going to expand his repertoire with roles such as Trojanischer Soldat/ Les Troyens, Don Estoban/ Der Zwerg, Osmin/ Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Alidoro/ La Cenerentola. In this season he stays in Essen as a guest performer with one of his best roles Graf Waldner/ Arabella. He is part of the project WAGNER-LESARTEN and in the RING as Fafner under the baton of Kent Nagano. The first concerts took place at the Kölner Philharmonie and at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in November 2021.

*cancelled due to corona

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Artist Website

www.christophseidl.at

Management

Artist Manager

Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-7 76 88 20

Repertoire

Repertoire Concert

Bach, J.S.	St. John Passion (Jesus)
	Magnificat
	Mass in b minor
Beethoven	9. Symphony
Brahms	Liebeslieder op. 52
	Neue Liebeslieder op. 65
Dvořák	Mass in D
	Stabat Mater
Haydn, J.	Große Mariazeller Messer in C-Dur
	Missa Sancti Nicolai
	Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo in B-Dur
	Stabat Mater
	Die Schöpfung (Raphael/Adam)
Haydn, M.	Misaa Sancti Hieronymi
Hummel	Große Messe in Es-Dur, op. 80
Kronsteiner	Johannespassion (Christus)
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy	Paulus op. 36 (Paulus)
Monteverdi	Vespro della Beata Vergine
Mozart	Mentre ti lasco figlia (Konzertarie)
	Requiem
	Missa brevis in B (Loretomesse)
	Missa brevis in G, KV 120 (Pastoralmesse)
	Messe in c - Moll, KV 139 (Waisenhausmesse)
	Messe in C, KV 220 (Spatzenmesse)
	Messe in C, KV 257 (Große Credomesse)
	Messe in C, KV 258 (Piccolominimesse)
	Messe in C, KV 259 (Orgelsolomesse)
	Messe in C, KV 317 (Krönungsmesse)
	Messe in C, KV 337 (Missa solemnis)
	Vesperae solennes de confessore
Rossini	Stabat Mater
Salieri	Requiem in c
Schubert, Ferdinand	Messe in B-Dur, op. 13 "Hirtenmesse"
Schubert, Franz	Die schöne Müllerin
	Messe in G-Dur, D 167
	Messe in C-Dur, D 452
	Messe in Es-Dur, D 950
Vaughan Williams	Songs of Travel
Verdi	Messa da Requiem

Repertoire Opera

Beethoven	Fidelio	Rocco
		Don Ferrando
		2. Gefangener
Bellini	La sonnambula	Rodolfo
Berlioz	Les Troyens	Un chef grec
		L'ombre d'Hector
		Soldat Troyens
Doderer	Liliom	Arzt
Donizetti	Maria Stuarda	Sir Giorgio Talbot
von Einem	Dantons Tod	Simon
Flotow	Martha	Richter
		Plumkett
Gassmann, F.L.	Gli Uccelatori	Pierotto
Giordano	Andrea Chénier	Maestro di Casa
Händel	Rinaldo	Mago
	Semele	Somnus
	Agrippina	Lesbo
Lortzing	Der Wildschütz	Baculus
Martinu	Alexandre bis	Portrait
Milhaud	La Mère coupable	Maître Fal
Morse, T.	Frau Schindler	Quartiermeister Schneefeld
		Zugführer
Mozart	Le nozze di Figaro	Antonio
		Bartolo
	Die Entführung aus dem Serail	Osmin
	Idomeneo	La Voce
	Don Giovanni	Il Commendatore
		Masetto
	Die Zauberflöte	Sarastro
		Sprecher
		2. Priester
		2. Geharnischter
Müller sen., A.	Die schwarze Frau	Sperber
Orff	Die Kluge	Bauer
Paisiello	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Notaro
		Svegliato
Poulenc	Les Mamelles de Tirésias	Presto
		Le Monsieur Barbu
Puccini	Gianni Schicchi	Simone
	La Bohème	Colline
	Tosca	Sagrestano
Purcel	King Arthur	Bass
Ravel	L'heure Espagnol	Don Inigo Gomez
Rossini	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Basilio
	La Cenerentola	Alidoro
Shostakovich	Lady Macbeth von Mzensk	Hausknecht
		Polizist
Strauss, J.	Die Fledermaus	Gefängnisdirektor Frank
Strauss, R.	Arabella	Graf Lamoral
		Graf Waldner
	Capriccio	Der Haushofmeister
	Salome	2. Soldat
		5. Jude
Tchaikovsky	Eugen Onegin	Gremin
		Saretzky
Verdi	Macbeth	Banco
	Don Carlo	Sei deputati flamminghi
	Rigoletto	Sparafucile
		Monterone
	Otello	Araldo
Wagner	Der fliegende Holländer	Daland
	Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg	Hans Schwarz
	Lohengrin	König Heinrich
		4. Edler
	Rheingold	Fafner
	Siegfried	Fafner
Weber	Freischütz	Eremit
Zemlinsky	Der Zwerg	Don Estoban

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News

New arrivals at BOM and Oper Köln

We are delighted that Giulia Montanari soprano and Christoph Seidl bass, are our newcomers this season and at the same time newcomers to the soloist ensemble of the Cologne Opera. They can be seen together on stage in Cologne in the season premieres of Les Troyens (Berlioz) under Francois-Xavier Roth directed by Johannes Erath and La Cenerentola under Matteo Beltrami directed by Cecilia Ligorio, as well as in the revival of Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio.
Premiere: Les Troyens 24/09/2022
Premiere: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (revival) 08/10/2022
Premiere: La Cenerentola 17/12/2022

New to General Management

We are very happy to welcome Austrian bass Christoph Seidl to our GM.

Christoph Seidl is moving from the Aalto Musiktheater Essen to the Cologne Opera at the beginning of this season. In Essen he was able to expand his repertoire with roles such as Eremit/ Freischütz, Komtur/ Don Giovanni, Mönch/ Don Carlo, Simone/ Il Trittico and Count Waldner/ Arabella, before taking on important new roles at the Cologne Opera, such as the Trojan Soldier/ Les Troyens , Don Estoban/ The Dwarf, Osmin/ The Abduction from the Seraglio and Alidoro / La Cenerentola.

In this season he stays in Essen as a guest with one of his brilliant roles Graf Waldner/Arabella. Christoph Seidl is currently celebrating another important Wagner role debut as Daland/Flying Dutchman on the Felsenbühne in Rathen, most recently he has already been extremely successful as Fafner in the "Wagner-Lesarten" project for Wagner's RING im Rheingold, the concerts took place in autumn 2021 the Kölner Philharmonie and in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with Concerto Köln and conducted by Kent Nagano.