Moritz Kallenberg

Moritz Kallenberg belongs to a new generation of tenors known for stylistic versatility, a broad repertoire and exceptional musical flexibility. As a member of the ensemble of Staatsoper Stuttgart and an internationally sought-after concert and oratorio singer, he regularly appears as a guest at major opera houses, festivals and concert venues. His intense stage presence and expressive artistry make him an outstanding singing actor. He has already worked with renowned conductors including William Christie, Thomas Hengelbrock, Marek Janowski, Diego Fasolis, Thomas Guggeis, Cornelius Meister, Alan Gilbert, Sir Simon Rattle, Leonardo García Alarcón, Stefano Montanari, Benjamin Bayl and Christopher Moulds, as well as distinguished directors such as Calixto Bieito, Jossi Wieler, Stephan Kimmig and Sergio Morabito, Kirill Serebrennikov and Floris Visser.

In the 2026/27 season, Moritz Kallenberg will appear in several new productions at his home company in Stuttgart: under General Music Director Nicholas Carter, he will sing Boris Ismailov (Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk) and, under Titus Engel, Admete (Gluck, Alceste), followed by a guest performance at the Wiener Festwochen. Further roles include the Steersman (Der fliegende Holländer), David (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) and Teacher/Gnat (Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen). As Melot (Tristan und Isolde), he will appear as a guest with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan.

In the concert field, Kallenberg continues his collaboration with Thomas Hengelbrock and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and will perform concerts at the Château de Fontainebleau as part of the series “Marie-Antoinette – Reine musicale” (“Marie-Antoinette – Musical Queen”). With Les Arts Florissants under Paul Agnew, he will once again perform Acis and Galatea at the Philharmonie de Paris recorded for CD. He will also sing the Evangelist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Basler Bach-Chor in Basel, the Hymnus Knabenchor in Stuttgart and at the Isarphilharmonie Munich under Fabio Biondi, and will once again take on the role of Evangelist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra and with the NDR Radiophilharmonie and NDR Vokalensemble under Klaas Stok.

Recent highlights include his role debuts as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at Staatsoper Stuttgart. He also returned as a guest to the Handel Festival Karlsruhe in Atalanta. In the concert field, engagements with Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle under Thomas Hengelbrock took him back to Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Haydn’s Harmoniemesse under William Christie to Madrid, Bach’s St Matthew Passion under Leonardo García Alarcón in Rotterdam, and Mozart’s Mass in C minor under Diego Fasolis in Milan.

During his time as an ensemble member at Staatsoper Stuttgart, he made his debut in numerous central roles, including Count Hohenzollern (Henze, Der Prinz von Homburg), Thespis and Mercure (Rameau, Platée), Oronte (Alcina), Froh and Loge (Das Rheingold), Narraboth (Salome) and the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Further highlights included the Evangelist in the staged St John Passion, Olivier Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise, the world premiere of the hybrid operetta Hotel Savoy, the new production of Casanova (Strauss/Benatzky), as well as Gomatz (Mozart, Zaide).

At the same time, guest engagements have taken him to opera houses including Theater an der Wien, the Opéra Royal de Versailles, Palau de les Arts Valencia, Tokyo Opera City, Théâtre Graslin in Nantes, Aalto-Theater Essen, Komische Oper Berlin, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and the Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg. As a sought-after concert singer, he regularly performs in Germany and abroad. He is a regular guest at the Philharmonie de Paris, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Philharmonie Berlin, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Tonhalle Zurich and Philharmonie Köln.

Highlights of these many engagements included Hyllus (Hercules) at the Handel Festival Karlsruhe, Platée at Dresden’s Semperoper, Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia) at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, and Andres (Wozzeck) under Alan Gilbert and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra at the International Music Festival Hamburg.

A formative collaboration connects him with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie, with whom he has been heard on numerous international concert tours in works including Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten, Ariodante, Bach’s St John Passion, Handel’s Israel in Egypt, as well as in the role of Belfiore (La finta giardiniera).

A particular focus of his concert work lies on the roles in Johann Sebastian Bach’s works. He is now one of the most sought-after Evangelists, having sung the role in the St John Passion under Diego Fasolis with I Barocchisti and the RSI Choir in Lugano, as well as with the Tölzer Knabenchor and the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal in Versailles released on CD, and with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano under Ruben Jais in Milan.

He has also regularly appeared as a guest in Italy. With the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, he sang Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Milan and Lucerne under Thomas Guggeis, and again under Krzysztof Urbański. Further highlights included Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang under Tomáš Netopil at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ with François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne Cathedral, and Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings under Malin Broman and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra in Kokkola, Finland.

Moritz Kallenberg studied at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Reginaldo Pinheiro and at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence. As a multiple prizewinner of the 2016 Bundeswettbewerb Gesang and the Carl Seemann Prize, and as a scholarship holder of the Helene Rosenberg Foundation, he developed an independent artistic profile early on.