CONTACTS
MARINA BOWER
mbower@productions-sarfati.fr
CATHY SARFATI
csarfati@productions-sarfati.fr
CLAUDIA ATKINSON
catkinson@productions-sarfati.fr


BIOGRAPHY

Widely described as one of the greatest baritones of our time, Matthias Goerne dazzles audiences with the depth of his velvet voice and the intensity of his interpretations, confirming him as one of the finest interpreters of German Lieder.


Celebrated around the globe for his opera and concert performances, German baritone Matthias Goerne is a frequent guest with leading orchestras and renowned festivals and concert halls. Among his musical partners are conductors such as Claudio Abbado,Herbert Blomstedt,
Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Daniele
Gatti, Bernard Haitink, Manfred Honeck, Mariss Jansons, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Vladimir
Jurowski, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Rattle,
Esa-Pekka Salonen and Franz Welser-Möst.
Matthias Goerne has appeared on the world’s principal opera stages, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Teatro Real in Madrid; Paris National Opera; Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, and the Vienna State Opera. His carefully chosen roles range from Amfortas, Marke, Wolfram, Wotan, Orest, and Jochanaan to the title roles in Béla Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and Alban Berg’s Wozzeck. In recital, he has appeared in Dallas, Paris, Brussels, Milan, Madrid, London and Seoul, with pianists Leif Ove Andsnes, Markus Hinterhäuser, Maria João Pires, Alexandre Kantorow, Daniil Trifonov and Víkingur Ólafsson.
Goerne’s artistry has been documented on numerous recordings, many of which have received rave reviews and prestigious awards, including five Grammy nominations, an ICMA award, a Gramophone Award, the BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award 2017, Diapason d’or arte, and the ECHO Klassik 2017 in the category “Singer of the Year”. In 2001, he was appointed an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London. In the past three years, he has released four albums with Deutsche Grammophon: Beethoven Songs with Jan Lisiecki, a collection of Wagner, Strauss and Pfitzner Songs with Seong-Jin Cho, an album of Schumann and Brahms Songs with Daniil Trifonov, which was awarded “Vocal Recording of the Year” by Limelight, and “Schubert Revisited”, the latest album with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen released in 2023, which brings the composer’s songs to life in arrangements for voice and orchestra. He is featured as Wotan on the Naxos release of the entire Ring Cycle with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and conductor Jaap van Zweden.
Highlights of the past season include concerts with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra as well as the Orchestre National de France conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as well as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck, and a tour of Asia with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi.
He sang the world premiere of Jörg Widmann’s Schumannliebe at the Casa da Musica in Porto and the Cologne Philharmonie. In addition to a series of concerts with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, he sang Britten’s War Requiem on tour in Germany with the SWR Symphony Orchestra. Goerne has performed in a series of recitals with Evgeny Kissin in Europe and the United States.
In the upcoming 2024/25 season, his schedule includes tours in Asia with Maria João Pires and in Australia with Daniil Trifonov. Goerne will perform Bluebeard with Mikko Franck and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and will also appear at the Musikverein in Vienna for the Christmas concert and perform John Adams’ “The Wound Dresser” with Marin Alsop. At the 2025 Mahler Festival, he will be a guest at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi. He will sing Frank Martin’s Jedermann Monologue with the orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski, and he will also appear in Israel with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Lahav Shani. At the Hamburg International Music Festival, he will perform in Wozzeck with Alan Gilbert and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. In 2026, Matthias Goerne will tour with the famous Mikhail Pletnev.
In the 2017/18 season, Matthias Goerne was the artist of residence at Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and The New York Philharmonic named him Artist-in-Residence for their 2018/19 season. He will be an artist in residence with the Shanghai Symphony in the 24/25 season. Born in Weimar, he studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
PRESS QUOTES
“Goerne’s instrument, with its velvety crevices, catches darkness and light. (…) Few artists are so temperamentally suited to this repertoire – and fewer still possess such a plush, darkly inviting voice.“ New York Times
“Today’s leading interpreter of German art songs” Chicago Tribune
“One of the greatest singers performing today” Boston Globe
CONTACTS
MARINA BOWER
Director, Artist Department
mbower@productions-sarfati.fr
CATHY SARFATI
Artist Office Manager
csarfati@productions-sarfati.fr
ANH PHAN
Coordinator, Artist Management
aphan@productions-sarfati.fr