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.atManagement
Artist Manager

Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-7 76 88 20
Repertoire
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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 |
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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
Further dates and information at:
www.oper.koeln.de
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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."
Arabella / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 15.05.22 / wr.de
"Christoph Seidl mit sonorem Bass (und Wiener Zungenschlag) wäre sicherlich auch ein idealer Baron Ochs"
Il Trittico / Aalto-Musiktheater Essen / 23.01.22 / wr.de
"Kleine Rolle, große Stimme: Der wendige Bass von Christoph Seidl berechtigt zu den schönsten Hoffnungen"
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"