Biography
The bassist, Yorck Felix Speer, obtained his education in singing under Theoder Greß, Hanna Schwarz, and Alan Speer. He was a masterclass student of Brigitte Fassbaender and Andreas Schmidt and is an awardee of the Queen- Sonja- Music- Competition. Speer studied German and theology and, since 1996, works as a freelance concert singer with increasingly frequent engagements in opera as well.Yorck Felix Speer worked with conductors, such as Ivor Bolton, Jan Willem de Vriend, Marc Minkowski, Thomas Hengelbrock, Hans- Christoph Rademann, Roger Norrington, Semyon Bychkov, Francois-Xavier Roth, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Philippe Herreweghe, Marek Janowski, Carlos Kalmar, Christoph Pregardien, Trevor Pinnock, Phillippe Herreweghe, Howard Griffith, Ebbe Munk, Charles Dutoit, Christopher Hogwood, Claus Peter Flor, Marcus Creed, Markus Stenz, Christoph Spering, Helmuth Rilling and Ingo Metzmacher.
Engagements led him to renowned houses and festivals, such as the Théâtre de Champs-Elysées and Cité de la Musique Paris, Musikverein and Konzerthaus Vienna, Philharmonie and Konzerthaus Berlin, Mariinski-Theater, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Herkulessaal and Philharmonie am Gasteig Munich, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Semperoper Dresden, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Oper Köln, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Teatro Monumental Madrid, Palau de la Música Catalana Barcelona and Warsaw Philharmonic.
Furthermore, he has been a guest at the Schleswig- Holstein Musikfestival, Festival de Beaune, Rheingau Musik Festivals, Musikfestspiele Dresden, Festspiele Herrenchiemsee, Budapest Spring Festivals, Mozartfestes La Coruňa, Oregon Bach Festivals, Russian Easter Festivals, Beethovenfest Bonn and Bachfest Leipzig.
In 2011, he made his debut as Sarastro at Staatstheater Oldenburg, which was followed by engagements at Opera Cologne in Schreker’s “Die Gezeichneten”, as well as his role debut as King Marke in Tristan und Isolde at the Nationale Reisopera Enschede. Furthermore, he was a part of concertante version of Der Freischütz under the baton of Thomas Hengelbrock on NDR and also made his debut at Staatstheater Kassel as Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro.
Further highlights include Tannhäuser/Reinmar von Zweter at Oper Köln, Daland/Der fliegende Holländer at Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and at the Nederlandse Reisopera Enschede, Mozart’s Requiem with the Bamberger Symphoniker in Passau and Bad Kissingen, as well as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at Herrenchiemsee Festival and Faust-Scenes at Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival under the baton of Matthias Janz.
In 2019/20 he will take over the roles of Capellio/I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Baculus/Der Wildschütz and Hunding/Die Walküre at Staatstheater Kassel, where he will also embody Hagen/ Götterdämmerung in the following season. In addition, he will sing the St Matthew Passion in Munich.
Radio- and CD-productions document Speer’s career. Recent recordings include the role of Räuberhauptmann Roberto in Ferdinand Ries´ opera Die Räuberbraut as well as Wagner’s Das Liebesverbot under Kristjan Järvi with German radio stations WDR and MDR.
Artist Website
www.felix-speer.deManagement
Artist Manager

Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-7 76 88 20
Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
Bach, C.P.E. | Magnificat |
Bach, J.C. | Dies Irae |
Bach, J.S. | B minor mass |
Christmas Oratorio | |
Magnificat | |
St. John Passion / Christus + Arias | |
St. Mark and St. Luke Passion / Christus + Arias | |
St. Matthew Passion: Christus + Arias | |
Beethoven | C major mass |
Christus am Ölberge / Petrus | |
Missa Solemnis | |
Symphony no. 9 | |
Bernstein | Chichester-Psalms |
Bloch | Avodath Hakodesh / Cantor (only Hebrew) |
Bruch | Das Lied von der Glocke / Meister, Baß |
Moses | |
Brahms | Requiem |
Vier ernste Gesänge i. Orchesterfassung | |
Bruckner | F minor mass |
Te Deum | |
Bruhns | De profundis clamavi |
Brunckhorst | Die Weihnachtsgeschichte |
Buxtehude | Membra Jesu Nostri |
Charpentier | Te Deum |
von Dohnanyi | Szegediner Messe |
Donizetti | Messa da Requiem |
Messa di Gloria e Credo | |
Durufle | Missa cum Jubilo |
Requiem | |
Dvorak | Biblical Songs |
Stabat Mater | |
Elgar | The Apostles / Judas |
The Dream of Gerontius / Priest, Angel of Agony | |
The Light of Life / Jesus | |
Fauré | Requiem |
Franck | Les Beatitudes / Satan, l´Ange de la mort, Baß 2 |
Händel | Dettinger & Uttrechter Te Deum |
Israel in Egypt / Baß 1 | |
L´Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato | |
Messiah | |
Salomon / a Levite | |
Samson / Manoa, Harapha | |
Saul | |
Haydn | Masses |
The Creation | |
The Seasons | |
The Seven Last Words of Christ | |
Hindemith | When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom´d - A Requiem for Those We Love |
Honegger | Une Cantate de noel |
Hoffmann, E.T.A. | Miserere in b-Moll |
Missa in d-Moll | |
Keiser | St. Mark Passion / Christus |
Liszt | Christus |
Mahler | Kindertotenlieder |
Rückert-Lieder | |
Des Knaben Wunderhorn | |
Mendelssohn | Die erste Wallpurgisnacht |
Elias | |
Lauda Sion | |
St. Matthew Passion | |
Monteverdi | Marienvesper |
Mozart | c minor mass |
Coronation Mass | |
Litaniae de venerabilis altaris Sacramento | |
Messen | |
Messias | |
Requiem | |
Vesperae solennes de Confessore | |
Puccini | Messa di Gloria |
Reger | Der Einsiedler op. 144a |
Requiem op. 144b | |
Romberg | Das Lied von der Glocke / Meister, Baß |
Rossini | Stabat Mater |
Saint-Saëns | Le Deluge |
Oratorio de Noel | |
Schein | Israelsbrünnlein |
Schmidt | Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln / Die Stimme des Herrn |
Schönberg | A surviver from Warsaw |
Schostakowitsch | 13. Symphonie "Babi Jar" |
Schubert | Die Messen |
Die Winterreise | |
Magnificat | |
Schumann | Dichterliebe |
Requiem | |
Schütz | Magnificat |
Musikalische Exequien | |
Psalme | |
Stravinsky | Canticum Sacrum |
Requiem Canticles | |
Vaughan Williams | Dona nobis pacem |
Sancta Civitas - The Holy City | |
Verdi | Requiem |
Vivaldi | Magnificat |
Weckmann | Es erhub sich ein Streit |
Wie wüste liegt die Stadt | |
Wolf | Michelangelo-Lieder |
Repertoire Opera
Beethoven | Fidelio | Don Fernando |
Don Pizarro | ||
Berlioz | La damnation de Faust | Brander |
L'Enfance du Christ | Herode | |
Pere de Famille | ||
Händel | Jephtha | Zebul |
Ottone | Emireno | |
Mattheson | Boris Goudenow | Fedro |
Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | Sarastro |
Sprecher | ||
Don Giovanni | Il Commendatore | |
Leporello | ||
Le nozze di Figaro | Bartolo | |
Figaro | ||
Thamos, King of Egypt | High priest | |
Liebermann | Die Schule der Frauen | Arnolphe |
Ries | Die Räuberbraut | Räuberhauptmann Roberto |
Schreker | Die Gezeichneten | Paolo Calvi |
Schumann | Szenen aus Goethes Faust | Böser Geist |
Méphistophélès | ||
Pater Profundus | ||
Wagner | Das Liebesverbot | Angelo |
Parsifal | Amfortas | |
Titurel | ||
Siegfried | Fafner | |
Tristan und Isolde | King Marke | |
Steuermann | ||
Weber | Der Freischütz | Ein Eremit |
Kaspar | ||
Weill | Der Silbersee | 2. Bursche |
News

Concert highlight with Leipzig’s Gewandhausorchester
At the end of February, another concert highlight awaits Yorck Felix Speer. He will perform Mendelssohn’s „Die erste Walpurgisnacht“ with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig led by Andrés Orozco-Estrada on February 27 and 28, (8 PM), and 29 (4 PM)Media
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Press
Der Wildschütz / Staatstheater Kassel / 27.05.19 / hna.de
"Stimmkraft und ein feines komödiantisches Timing"
Der Wildschütz / Staatstheater Kassel / 25.05.19 / omm.de
"gelingt es mit kernig-volltönendem und doch höchst beweglichem Spielbass und exzellenter Schauspielkunst sängerisch wie szenisch die Tragikomik [...] überzeugend darzustellen"
Die Walküre / Staatstheater Kassel / 28.04.19 / deropernfreund.de
"Großartig, weil stahlklar, fokussiert"