Christoph Pohl
Bariton
The German baritone Christoph Pohl was a member of the ensemble of the Semperoper Dresden from 2005 to 2018. There he sung major roles in his voice type including Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Herald (Lohengrin), Marcello (La bohème), Lescaut (Manon Lescaut), Giorgio Germont (La traviata), Posa (Don Carlo), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Olivier and Count (Capriccio), Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Storch (Intermezzo), Ottokar (Der Freischütz), the Fiddler (Königskinder), Danilo (Die lustige Witwe), Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus), Valentin (Faust) and the title roles of Eugene Onegin und Švanda dudák.
His guest engagements have included Wolfram, Zurga (Les Pêcheurs de perles) and Albert in the world premiere of Detlev Glanert’s Oceane at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Ottokar at the Stuttgart State Opera, Papageno for the Leipzig Opera, Marcello and Wolfram at Theater Erfurt, Figaro and Harlequin at the Hamburg State Opera, Danilo at the Frankfurt Opera and roles including Count Almaviva and Der Strugatzi in Peter Eötvös’s Die Tragödie des Teufels at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
In 2013 he appeared as the Count (Capriccio) in Lyon and as Wolfram at the Royal Albert Hall in London, where he returned in 2019 for Haydn’s The Creation under Omer Meir Wellber. He sang Count Francesco Cenci in Berthold Goldschmidt’s Beatrice Cenci in 2018, returning in 2020 as Conte Lasca in the world premiere of L’ubica Čekovská’s Impresario Dotcom. He has appeared at the Theater an der Wien as Thoas (Iphigénie en Tauride) and in the title roles of Salieri’s Falstaff and Rossini’s Guillaume Tell. He has also sung Wolfram and Danilo at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and Amfortas (Parsifal) for Opera Vlaanderen. In 2015 he made his debut at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, as Johannes in the world premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’s Morgen und Abend, later returning as Germont and Posa.
Recent engagements have included the Hoopoe in Braunfels’s Die Vögel at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, Wolfram in Hamburg and Alfonso VIII in the world premiere of Glanert’s Die Jüdin von Toledo at the Semperoper.
He has appeared throughout Europe and in Japan and the USA as a recitalist and concert singer. In 2017 he made his debut at the Wigmore Hall in London with a Lieder recital.
In October 2026 he will make his role debut as Sixtus Beckmesser in a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.
