Matthias Goerne

Matthias Goerne, one of the world’s foremost baritones, is acclaimed for his profound interpretations of opera and art song. He has performed at top houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Paris National Opera, and Vienna State Opera, in roles such as Wotan, Amfortas, Marke, Bluebeard, and Wozzeck. He collaborates with leading conductors—Simon Rattle, Kirill Petrenko, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Franz Welser-Möst, Herbert Blomstedt, Myung-Whun Chung, Fabio Luisi, Andris Nelsons, Manfred Honeck, Jaap van Zweden, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin—and appears regularly with major orchestras and festivals.

An acclaimed recording artist with numerous awards and five Grammy nominations, Goerne is a member of the Royal Philharmonic Society. Expanding his artistic scope, he will debut as stage director in Salome in Toulouse. Recent highlights include a Schubert’s song cycle with Maria João Pires and Daniil Trifonov, performed across Europe, North America, Australia, and Asia, and the world premiere of Jörg Widmann’s Schumannliebe.

Goerne works with renowned pianists such as Pierre Laurent Aimard, Leif Ove Andsnes, Vladimir Ashkenasi, Alfred Brendel, Christoph Eschenbach, Markus Hinterhäuser, Alexandre Kantarov, Vikingur Olafson, Maria Joao Pires and Daniil Trifonov.

Born in Weimar, he studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.