Biography

ThThe Austrian bass Christoph Seidl was born in Weitra. He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Ralf Döring, Florian Boesch and KS Robert Holl. He took part in master classes of Angelika Kirchschlager, Helmut Deutsch and Thomas Hampson and was a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner association and won the Wolfgang Wagner prize winner of the Wagnerstimmen competition in Karlsruhe.
Since the season 2022/23 he is a member of the Ensemble of Oper Köln. His most important roles in Cologne are Sarastro, Osmin, Don Estoban (Der Zwerg) and Seneca (L’incoronazione di Poppea)
Earlier stations in his career were the Aalto Musiktheater in Essen (2020-22), the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich (2016-20), the Junges Ensemble at Theater an der Wien (2014-16) and the International Opera Studio of Opernhaus Zürich.
He performed as a guest at the Staatstheater Kassel, Sächsische Landesbühnen, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf and the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater.
Important roles are Sarastro, Osmin, Daland, Il Commendatore, Baculus (Der Wildschütz), Graf Waldner (Arabella), Fafner, Sparafucile or Alidoro.
Concerts brought him to venues in Russia (Bolshoi theatre Moscow), the United States (Lincoln Center NYC), China (various), Belgium (Palais deBeaux-arts), the Netherlands (Concertgebouw) and to many cities in German speaking countries (Brucknerhaus Linz, Philharmonie Essen, Philharmonie Köln, Herkulessaal Munich).
He was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Opernhaus Zürich in the 2013/14 season where he debuted a season earlier in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth from Mzensk.
In the summer of 2013 he was part of the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival, where he performend Osmin in a production of The Abduction from the Seraglio for children and as a Deputato in Verdi’s Don Carlo.
In his career he worked with conductors like Nello Santi, Antonio Pappano, Sebastian Weigle, Theodor Currentzis, Fabio Luisi, Thomas Hengelbrock, Bertrand de Billy, René Jacobs or Jean-Christophe Spinosi.
Beside the opera stage he enjoys singing oratorio and song recitals in different languages and styles, especially the German Lied.

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