Biography

Austrian bass Christoph Seidl has been a member of the Cologne Opera ensemble since the 2022/23 season, where his roles have included Sarastro, Osmin, Don Estoban/Der Zwerg, Seneca/L'incoronazione di Poppea, Alidoro/ Cenerentola and Nourabad/ Die Perlenfischer.

He studied with Ralf Döring, Robert Holl and Florian Boesch at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, attended masterclasses with Angelika Kirchschlager, Thomas Hampson and Helmut Deutsch and was a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association in 2011.
As a member of the Salzburg Festival's Young Singers Project, Christoph Seidl made his debut in 2013 as Osmin in ‘Die Entführung aus dem Serail’ in a version for children and appeared as Deputato in ‘Don Carlo’ at the Großes Festspielhaus. In the same year, his debut in the new production of Shostakovich's ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’ at Zurich Opera House led to his engagement at the opera house's International Opera Studio for the 2013/14 season. He was also awarded 2nd prize in the ‘Wagner Voices’ competition.

Important ensemble stations in his career include the Aalto Musiktheater Essen (2020-22), the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich (2016-20) and the Junges Ensemble of the Theater an der Wien (2014-16). 

Guest performances have taken him to the Staatstheater Kassel, the Staatstheater Oldenburg, the Landesbühnen Sachsen, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf and the Theater an der Wien, where he has appeared as Baculus/ Wildschütz, Daland/ Fliegende Holländer and Il commendatore/ Don Giovanni, among others.
In a concert performance of ‘Rheingold’, he sang Fafner with Concerto Köln under Kent Nagano in the Philharmonie Köln and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

He has made a name for himself as a lieder and concert singer, as well as in the field of church music, with a large repertoire ranging from Haydn to Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert through to the modern era. Concert tours have taken him to Brussels (Palais des Beaux Arts ‘Bozar’), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Madrid (Auditorio Nacional de Música), Moscow (Bolshoi), Singapore (Esplanade Concert Hall) and New York (Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center NYC).  In German-speaking countries, he has performed at the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Philharmonie Köln, the Philharmonie Essen and the Herkulessaal in Munich. 
Christoph Seidl has already worked with conductors such as Nello Santi, Fabio Luisi, Sebastian Weigle, Theodor Currentzis, Antonio Pappano, Rene Jacobs, Thomas Hengelbrock and Bertrand de Billy and directors such as Claus Guth, Andreas Homoki, Robert Carson, Peter Stein, Tatjana Gürbaca, Herbert Föttinger and Michael Sturminger. 

In 2024, he was a guest at the Ópera de Oviedo as Count Waldner in Arabella and at the Aalto Musiktheater Essen with an operetta gala. At the Vienna Konzerthaus, he sang the solo bass in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 for the first time. At his home theatre in Cologne, he will once again be heard as Sarastro and Commendatore as well as Colline in Bohème.

Artist Website

www.christophseidl.at 

Management



Artist Manager
 
 
 
 
Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net 
Mobil: +49-173-7 76 88 20

Repertoire

Repertoire Concert

Bach, J.S. St. John Passion (Jesus)
  St. Matthew Passion (Jesus)
  Magnificat
  Mass in b minor
Beethoven 9. Symphony
Brahms Liebeslieder op. 52
  Neue Liebeslieder op. 65
Dvořák Mass in D
  Stabat Mater
Haydn, J. Große Mariazeller Messe in C-Dur
  Missa Sancti Nicolai
  Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo in B-Dur
  Stabat Mater
  Die Schöpfung (Raphael/Adam)
Haydn, M. Misaa Sancti Hieronymi
Hummel Große Messe in Es-Dur, op. 80
Kozłowski, J Requiem
Kronsteiner Johannespassion (Christus)
Mahler Symphony No. 8
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Paulus op. 36 (Paulus)
Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine
Mozart Mentre ti lascio figlia (Konzertarie)
  Requiem
  Missa brevis in B (Loretomesse)
  Missa brevis in G, KV 120 (Pastoralmesse)
  Messe in c - Moll, KV 139 (Waisenhausmesse)
  Messe in C, KV 220 (Spatzenmesse)
  Messe in C, KV 257 (Große Credomesse)
  Messe in C, KV 258 (Piccolominimesse)
  Messe in C, KV 259 (Orgelsolomesse)
  Messe in C, KV 317 (Krönungsmesse)
  Messe in C, KV 337 (Missa solemnis)
  Vesperae solennes de confessore
Rossini Stabat Mater
Salieri Requiem in c
Schubert, Ferdinand Messe in B-Dur, op. 13 "Hirtenmesse"
Schubert, Franz Die schöne Müllerin
  Messe in G-Dur, D 167
  Messe in C-Dur, D 452
  Messe in Es-Dur, D 950
Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel
Verdi Messa da Requiem
 

Repertoire Opera

Beethoven Fidelio Rocco
    Don Ferrando
    2. Gefangener
Bellini La sonnambula Rodolfo
Berlioz Les Troyens Un chef grec
    L'ombre d'Hector
    Soldat Troyens
Bizet Carmen Zuniga
  Le Pecheurs de perles Nourabad
Britten Peter Grimes Hobson
Doderer Liliom Arzt
Donizetti Maria Stuarda Sir Giorgio Talbot
von Einem Dantons Tod Simon
Flotow Martha Richter
    Plumkett
Gassmann, F.L. Gli Uccelatori Pierotto
Giordano Andrea Chénier Maestro di casa
Händel Agrippina Lesbo
  Rinaldo Mago
  Semele Somnus
Lortzing Der Wildschütz Baculus
Martinu Alexandre Bis Portrait
Milhaud La Mère coupable Maître Fal
Monteverdi L'incoronazione di Poppea Mercurio
    Seneca
    Terzo famigliare di Seneca
Morse, T. Frau Schindler Quartiermeister Schneefeld
    Zugführer
Mozart Le nozze di Figaro Antonio
    Bartolo
  Die Entführung aus dem Serail Osmin
  Idomeneo La Voce
  Don Giovanni Il Commendatore
    Masetto
  Die Zauberflöte Sarastro
    Sprecher
    2. Priester
    2. Geharnischter
Müller sen., A. Die schwarze Frau Sperber
Orff Die Kluge Bauer
Paisiello Il barbiere di Siviglia Notaro
    Svegliato
Poulenc Les Mamelles de Tirésias Presto
    Le Monsieur Barbu
Puccini Gianni Schicchi Simone
  La bohème Alcindoro
    BenoÎt
    Colline
  Tosca Sagrestano
Purcel King Arthur Bass
    Grimbald
    Pan
Ravel L'Heure Espagnol Don Inigo Gomez
Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia Basilio
  La Cenerentola Alidoro
Sendil Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten Karl
Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Porter
    Policeman
Strauss, J. Die Fledermaus Gefängnisdirektor Frank
Strauss, R.  Arabella Graf Lamoral
    Graf Waldner
  Capriccio Der Haushofmeister
  Die Frau ohne Schatten Der Einarmige
  Elektra Ein alter Diener
  Salome 2. Soldat
    5. Jude
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin Prince Gremin
    Zaretsky
Verdi Don Carlo Frate
    Sei deputati fiamminghi
  Macbeth Banco
  Nabucco Il Gran Sacerdote
  Rigoletto Sparafucile
    Monterone
  Otello Araldo
  Un ballo in maschera Samuel / Count Horn
    Tom / Count Ribbing
Wagner Der fliegende Holländer Daland
  Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Hans Schwarz
  Lohengrin König Heinrich
    4. Edler
  Rheingold Fafner
  Siegfried Fafner
Weber Freischütz Eremit
Zemlinsky Der Zwerg Don Estoban

News

In Cologne with Spain´s most famous playboy
In this production, director Cecilia Ligorio sheds light on the myth of ‘Don Giovanni’ from a female perspective with a modern twist. Christoph Seidl will be on stage from March 9th 2025 as the Commendatore alongside Giulia Montanari as Zerlina, bringing the work to life under the direction of Tomáš Netopil.

Further dates and information at:
www.oper.koeln.de 

Press

 

Koslovsky Requiem / Esplanade Concert Hall Singapore / 10.04.23 / bachtrack.com


"imposing and imperious, his Confutatis maledictis coming on like a threat" 

Arabella / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 28.05.22 / omm.de


"...Christoph Seidl als klangschöner Graf Waldner." 

Das Rheingold / Philharmonie Köln / 20.11.21 / opernmagazin.de


"Die Riesen Fafner (bassgewaltig Christoph Seidl als durchsetzungsstarker Bauunternehmer)" 

La Bohème / Gärtnerplatztheater München / 10.05.19 / onlinemerker.com


"Eine Synthese aus verinnerlichtem Gesang und Darstellung"
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