Detlef Roth - baritone

Detlef Roth one of the most talented singers of our generation, his career was jump started when at the age of twenty-two, while still studying at the prestigious Musikhochschule of Stuttgart, he won the renowned Belvedere voice competition in Vienna as well as several additional prizes (such as the prize of the Media Jury, the Gulbenkian prize, prizes of different European radio stations and more). Two years later at the first "Concours des Voix Wagneriennes" in Strasbourg, he won both First Place and the Audience Prize. He has worked with several of the world's most important orchestras, alongside famed musicians, and under the baton of many top conductors. His opera career as a principal player began in Paris, at the Opera Comique in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Mr. Roth has sung the opening concert in his signature role of Elijah and in two opera productions and many concerts over four seasons at the Salzburg Festival. A flair for comedy has earned him great reviews as Dulcamara in Elisir d'Amore and as Magic Flute's Papageno in Paris, Rome and Frankfurt. More serious roles include Gunther in Gotterdammerung, Escamillo in Carmen, and Marcello in La Bohème. Another role he has sung to acclaim throughout Europe is that of Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhauser. A noble voice indeed, as delighted audiences found when he played the title role in Tchaikovsky's Eugenin Onegin, in Tchaikowsky's Queen of Spades as Prince Eletski, as Czar Peter the Great in Zar and Zimmerman, and as the Count in The Marriage of Figaro. He earned yet more kudos for his triumph as King of the underworld in the title role of Hans Heiling in Strasbourg. Also at home in the modern repertoire he earned rave reviews as Pentheus in Henze's Bassarids in late 2005 at the DNO in Amsterdam. Opera houses which have hired him repeatedly include the Grand Theatre de Genève, London's Covent Garden, and the Oper Frankfurt. Perhaps more distinguished still is Detlef Roth's concert career. In addition to Elijah, other works he sings frequently are Orff's Carmina Burana, Handel's Messiah, works by Beethoven, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Schubert or Schumann, the Brahms and Faure; Requiems, as well as Bach oeuvres such as B Minor Mass, his oratorios and passions. Orchestras with which he has sung regularly are Rome's Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the Vienna Philharmonic, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Strasbourg. His US performances have included Leonore in New York's Lincoln Center and three seasons with the Newport Music Festival.

Future plans include: Elias in Stuttgart; Parsifal at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna; Lohengrin in Vienna and Rennes; Ein Deutsches Requiem in Hamburg and Lubeck; and a series of concerts in Bremen, Moscow and in Yokohama.