Gerhard Siegel
tenor
About this Artist
Born in Germany, tenor Gerhard Siegel won the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna in 1995. From 1999 to 2006, he was a member of the Nuremberg company, where he sang Bacchus (Ariadne auf Naxos), Herodes (Salome), Tom Rakewell (The Rake’s Progress), Florestan (Fidelio), Laca (Jenůfa), and the title roles in Parsifal and Siegfried.
He sang Max (Der Freischütz) at the Komische Oper in Berlin; Parsifal in Kassel; the title role in Kurt Weill’s Der Protagonist at the Bregenz Festival; Hauptmann (Wozzeck) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Lyric Opera in Chicago, and the Salzburg Festival; Sellem (The Rake’s Progress) at the Theater an der Wien; Shuisky (Boris Godounov) in Munich; Alwa (Lulu) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; Tristan (Tristan und Isolde) in Augsburg; Herodes at the Vienna State Opera, the Zurich Opera, and the Verbier Festival; Midas (Die Liebe der Danae) at the Salzburg Festival; the Emperor (Die Frau ohne Schatten) at the Verbier Festival 2019; and Piet (Le Grand Macabre) in Dresden.
He performed the role of Mime in Wagner’s Ring for his debuts at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and the Bayreuth Festival, as well as in Cologne, Tokyo’s New National Theatre, London’s Royal Opera House, and Budapest’s Müpa. He composed the music for a stage version of Heinrich Heine’s Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen, premiered in Trier.