Christian Tschelebiew

Christian Tschelebiew was born in Stuttgart in 1966. He has been an ensemble member of the Komische Oper Berlin, the State Theatres of Mainz and Augsburg and the theatres of Erfurt and Gießen. Guest engagements have taken him to the Bayreuth Festival, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, to Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Hanover and the opera houses of Leipzig, Lübeck, Dortmund, Aachen, Genoa, Trieste, Catania, Reykjavik, Minsk and Sofia. Since 2021 he has been a member of the opera ensemble at the Luzerner Theater.

Parts that he has performed on stage include Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier), Philip II (Don Carlo), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Ramfis (Aida), Bluebeard (Bluebeard’s Castle), Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin), the title role of Don Pasquale, Dulcamara (L’elisir d’amore), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Leporello and the title role of Don Giovanni, Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Basilio and Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia), the title role of Mosè in Egitto, Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola), Klingsor (Parsifal), Biterolf (Tannhäuser), Don Pizarro (Fidelio) and Van Bett (Zar und Zimmermann).

Christian Tschelebiew has worked with conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Andris Nelsons, Alain Altinoglu, Philippe Jordan, Ralf Weikert and Michail Jurowski, and with directors including Hans Neuenfels, Peter Konwitschny, Harry Kupfer, Stefan Herheim, Barrie Kosky and Andreas Homoki.