Biography

Austrian bass Christoph Seidl has been a member of the ensemble at Cologne Opera since the 2022/23 season, where he has sung the roles of Sarastro, Osmin, Don Estoban/Der Zwerg, Seneca/L'incoronazione di Poppea, Alidoro/Cenerentola and Nourabad/Die Perlenfischer, among others.
He studied with Ralf Döring, Robert Holl and Florian Boesch at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, took 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 ‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’ 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 the Zurich Opera House led to his engagement at the International Opera Studio of this house for the 2013/14 season. He was also awarded second prize in the Wagner Voices competition.

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

Guest appearances 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 performed as Baculus/Wildschütz, Daland/Flying Dutchman and Il commendatore/Don Giovanni, among others.
In a concert performance of ‘Rheingold’, he sang Fafner with Concerto Köln under Kent Nagano at the Philharmonie Köln and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

As a song and concert singer, and also in the field of church music, he made a name for himself with a large repertoire ranging from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert to modern composers. 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 Centre NYC), among other places.  In German-speaking countries, he has performed at the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Philharmonie Cologne, the Philharmonie Essen and the Herkulessaal in Munich. 

Christoph Seidl has 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 recent seasons, Christoph Seidl has performed in Madrid with St Matthew Passion and in Singapore with Koslowsky's Requiem. He made guest appearances at the Ópera de Oviedo as Count Waldner in Arabella and at the Aalto Musiktheater Essen with an operetta gala. He sang the solo bass for the first time at the Vienna Konzerthaus in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8. At his home theatre in Cologne, he once again appeared as Sarastro, Commendatore and Colline in La Bohème, as well as in La Passion de Simone, The Magic Flute and Das Rheingold.

In the 2025/26 season, Christoph Seidl will appear at his home theatre, the Cologne Opera, as Sarastro/Die Zauberflöte, Fasolt/Das Rheingold, Antonio/Le nozze di Figaro and Timur/Turandot.

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