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The Austrian bass Christoph Seidl studied under Ralf Döring, Robert Hall, and Florian Bösch at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and took master courses with Angelika Kirchschlager, Thomas Hampson und Helmut Deutsch. He also was a scholarship holder in 2011 at the Richard Wagner Verband. At the 2018 competition of „Wagner-Stimmen“, he was bestowed with the 2nd award.
 
His opera debut was a new production of Shostakovich's „Lady Macbeth von Mzensk“ at Opernhaus Zürich, after which he was permanently employed at the Opernstudio in Zurich for the season of 2013/14. Christoph Seidl debuted as a member of the Young Singers Project 2013 in Salzburg as Osmin/ Entführung aus dem Serail (a shortened version for children) at the Salzburger Festspiele. Furthermore, he played as Deputato/ Don Carlo at the Große Festpielhaus.
 
In 2014 he relocated to the Junge Ensemble des Theaters an der Wien, where he, amongst other things, sang as Gremlin at the Wiener Kammeroper and took on several roles at the Große Haus. During this time he established himself as a song and concert singer, as well as in the area of Church Music with a large repertoire  that incompasses Hadyn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and contemporary repertoire. Concerts also brought him to Brussels (Palais des Beux Arts „Bozar“), Moscow (Bolshio) and New York (Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC).

From 2016 to 2020 Christoph Seidl was part of the ensemble at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich where he embodied roles such as Sarastro/ Die Zauberflöte, Commendatore/ Don Giovanni, Baculus/ Der Wildschütz, Alidoro/ La Cenerentola, Sparafucile/ Rigoletto or Colline/ La Bohème. Playing the role of Bacalus/ Der Wildschütz he featured at the Staatstheater Kassel and was to be heard at the Theater an der Wien as Hans Bast in „Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn“ by Carl Maria von Weber.
 
Christoph Seidl has worked with conductors such as Nello Santo, Fabio Luisi, Sebastian Weigle, Theodor Currentztis, Antonio Pappano, René Jacobs, Thomas Hangelbrock and Bertrand de Billy, as well as directors such as Claus Guth, Andreas Homoki, Robert Carson, Peter Stein, Tatjana Gürbaca, Herbert Föttinger and Michael Sturminger.

During the season of 2020/2021 Seidl relocated to the Aalto Theater Essen, where he already was meant to debut as a guest in the role of Bartolo in Le Nozze de Figaro*. In the past season he was to be heard in Essen portraying roles such as Eremit/ Freischütz, Simone/ Trittico, Commendatore/ Don Giovanni and Graf Waldner/ Arabella.

Before his debut at Oper Köln for this season, Christoph Seidl also celebrates another important Wagner role debut as Daland/ Fliegender Holländer at the Felsenbühne in Rathen. At the Oper Köln he is going to expand his repertoire with roles such as Trojanischer Soldat/ Les Troyens, Don Estoban/ Der Zwerg, Osmin/ Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Alidoro/ La Cenerentola. In this season he stays in Essen as a guest performer with one of his best roles Graf Waldner/ Arabella. He is part of the project WAGNER-LESARTEN and in the RING as Fafner under the baton of Kent Nagano. The first concerts took place at the Kölner Philharmonie and at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in November 2021.
 
*cancelled due to corona

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