Andreas Bauer Kanabas

Artist Manager

Boris Orlob

Andreas Bauer Kanabas has an exceptionally broad repertoire in the serious bass repertoire and performs major roles in eight different languages. A particular focus is on the great bass roles of Verdi and Wagner, as well as Russian roles. The wide range, warm timbre and legato technique of his voluminous voice make him a Basso cantante of great versatility. The former ensemble member of Staatsoper Berlin performs on international stages, including the Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille de Paris, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Teatro Real Madrid, Seattle Opera, New National Theatre in Tokyo, Teatro Municipal Santiago de Chile, Opéra de Lyon, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse, National Opera Riga, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Hamburg and all three Berlin opera houses. Andreas Bauer Kanabas has been a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt since the 2013/14 season. In 2025, he received the Rheingold Prize of the Frankfurt Richard Wagner Association.

In the 2026/27 season, Andreas Bauer Kanabas takes on the role of the Commendatore (Don Giovanni) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, before returning to his home house, Oper Frankfurt, as Landgraf Hermann (Tannhäuser) and making two role debuts as Tschub (Rimsky-Korsakov’s Die Nacht vor Weihnachten) and Hunding (Die Walküre). At Semperoper Dresden, he will appear as Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier) and as Stefano Colonna in the new production of Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen, directed by Eva-Maria Höckmayr, having previously sung the role with outstanding success at the Bayreuther Festspiele.

Among the defining roles in his operatic repertoire are Filippo II. in both Italian and French (Don Carlo), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), De Silva (Ernani), Banco (Macbeth), Padre Guardiano (La forza del destino), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), King Heinrich (Lohengrin), Landgraf Hermann (Tannhäuser), Pogner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) and Daland (Der fliegende Holländer). He also sings with great success the title role in Herzog Blaubarts Burg, Vodnik (Rusalka), Gremin (Eugen Onegin), Pimen (Boris Godunow), Boris (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk), Claggart (Billy Budd), Mephisto (Faust), Escamillo (Carmen), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Commendatore (Don Giovanni) and Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier).

Andreas Bauer Kanabas is also internationally sought after as a concert singer. His repertoire ranges from the great oratorios to symphonic works by Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Schumann, Verdi and Mahler. Past concert engagements have taken him, among other places, to the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, NDR Hamburg, the Spring Festival in Tokyo and Müpa Budapest. He has worked with conductors including Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Ádám Fischer, Iván Fischer, Philippe Jordan, Andris Nelsons, Sir Simon Rattle, Christian Thielemann and Sebastian Weigle.

His highly acclaimed solo CD Love and Despair (OhemsClassics), featuring Romantic bass arias under the direction of Karsten Januschke, was released in September 2021. In February 2023, his first highly praised song recording was released – Franz Schubert’s Schwanengesang, with Daniel Heide on piano.

After studying singing with Eugen Rabine in Weimar, his first engagements took him to the Eduard-von-Winterstein-Theater Annaberg-Buchholz and the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. From 2007 to 2012, he was a member of the ensemble at Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, before joining the ensemble of Oper Frankfurt in 2013.

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Artist Manager

Boris Orlob

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"Ochs too, house debutant Andreas Bauer Kanabas, sang magnificently, using his sonorous bass with fine control, and with histrionic skill to show Ochs´pretension and self-importance without bluster."

- Bachtrack

"The German bass has cavernous low notes and clearly relished the text. I love that his Ochs is not even scratched by Octavian´s sword in their Act 2 duel, but merely feigns injury."

- Opera Now

"A noble bass, with a sovereign legato, impeccable expressive declamation, a voice both supple and profound, dark yet lyrical, he ennobles a character often considered less compelling by making him a decisive force in the unfolding oft Act II. We may readily acknowledge that his performance ranks among the finest of recent years, as the audience´s reception confirmed."

- Opera Diary

"Andreas Bauer Kanabas, whose bass voice carried farther than all the others, and who in this way truly seemed like fate made flesh. "

- Magazin Klassik

"The greatest gift [...] is undoubtedly the phenomenal Andreas Bauer-Kanabas, who deservedly received the greatest applause. With his powerful, profound voice and excellent diction, he is as excellent a Gurnemanz as his prominent colleagues at present..."

- Concerti