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Konstantin Wolff Bass-Baritone

Bass-baritone Konstantin Wolff studied with D. Litaker at the University of Music in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2004 he won first prize in the Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin and was chosen as an Elite Scholar of the German People (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes).

In 2005 he made his debut at l'Opéra de Lyon as Mercurio (L'incoronazione di Poppea, Monteverdi) under William Christie's baton, and was part of the academy „Le jardin des voix“, founded by William Christie’s Les Arts Florissants. Since he has been seen in Handel’s Rodelinda with Il Complesso Barocco, Orlando in Zürich, Britten’s Midsummernight's Dream and Curlew River in Lyon, Monteverdi’s L'Orfeo and Mozarts Die Zauberflöte in Aix-en-Provence, Cavalli’s La Calisto and Mernier’s Frühlings Erwachen in Brussels and Giulio Cesare in Göttingen.

His concert repertoire includes the oratorios of Handel and Bach, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Beethoven’s Symphony Nr. 9, Mendelssohn’s Paulus as well as Mozart’s, Dvorak’s and Fauré’s Requiems. He regularly sings with conductors such as Jacobs, Abbado, Rattle, Boreyko, Minkowsi, McGegan, Chailly and Koopman. His first recital album named Victor Hugo en Musique, together with pianist Trung Sam was released in 2008 on Harmonia Mundi.

He made his Viennese debut as Obrazzano, Tancredi at Theater an der Wien in 2009 and future engagements include new productions of Cosi Fan tutte (Don Alfonso) in Baden Baden and Rodelinda at Theater an der Wien under Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

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