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Biography

ThThe Austrian bass Christoph Seidl was born in Weitra. He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Ralf Döring, Florian Boesch and KS 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 and won the Wolfgang Wagner prize winner of the Wagnerstimmen competition in Karlsruhe.
Since the season 2022/23 he is a member of the Ensemble of Oper Köln. His most important roles in Cologne are Sarastro, Osmin, Don Estoban (Der Zwerg) and Seneca (L’incoronazione di Poppea)
Earlier stations in his career were the Aalto Musiktheater in Essen (2020-22), the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich (2016-20), the Junges Ensemble at Theater an der Wien (2014-16) and the International Opera Studio of Opernhaus Zürich.
He performed as a guest at the Staatstheater Kassel, Sächsische Landesbühnen, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf and the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater.
Important roles are Sarastro, Osmin, Daland, Il Commendatore, Baculus (Der Wildschütz), Graf Waldner (Arabella), Fafner, Sparafucile or Alidoro.
Concerts brought him to venues in Russia (Bolshoi theatre Moscow), the United States (Lincoln Center NYC), China (various), Belgium (Palais deBeaux-arts), the Netherlands (Concertgebouw) and to many cities in German speaking countries (Brucknerhaus Linz, Philharmonie Essen, Philharmonie Köln, Herkulessaal Munich).
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 the summer of 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.
In his career he worked with conductors like 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, especially the German Lied.

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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)
	St. Matthew 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 Messe 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
Kozłowski, J	Requiem
Kronsteiner	Johannespassion (Christus)
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy	Paulus op. 36 (Paulus)
Monteverdi	Vespro della Beata Vergine
Mozart	Mentre ti lascio 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
Britten	Peter Grimes	Hobson
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	Agrippina	Lesbo
	Rinaldo	Mago
	Semele	Somnus
Lortzing	Der Wildschütz	Baculus
Martinu	Alexandre Bis	Portrait
Milhaud	La Mère coupable	Maître Fal
Monteverdi	L'incoronazione di Poppea	Mercurio
		Seneca
		Terzo famigliare di Seneca
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
		Grimbald
		Pan
Ravel	L'Heure Espagnol	Don Inigo Gomez
Rossini	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Basilio
	La Cenerentola	Alidoro
Shostakovich	Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk	Porter
		Policeman
Strauss, J.	Die Fledermaus	Gefängnisdirektor Frank
Strauss, R.	Arabella	Graf Lamoral
		Graf Waldner
	Capriccio	Der Haushofmeister
	Die Frau ohne Schatten	Der Einarmige
	Salome	2. Soldat
		5. Jude
Tchaikovsky	Eugene Onegin	Prince Gremin
		Zaretsky
Verdi	Don Carlo	Frate
		Sei deputati fiamminghi
	Macbeth	Banco
	Rigoletto	Sparafucile
		Monterone
	Otello	Araldo
	Un ballo in maschera	Samuel / Count Horn
		Tom / Count Ribbing
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

Toi Toi Toi! Premiere "FroSch" at Opera Cologne

Soprano Giulia Montanari and bass Christoph Seidl are back on stage together at the Cologne Opera. This time in the premiere on September 17, 2023 of Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten under the musical direction of Marc Albrecht and staged by Katharina Thoma.
Giulia Montanari sings "The Falcon" and "The Guardian of the Threshold" and Christoph Seidl can be heard as "The One-Armed Man".

More info about the production:
www.oper.koeln/de/...