Kieran Carrel

The British-German tenor Kieran Carrel studied in Cologne with Christoph Prégardien and at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Neil Mackie. He is a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he has most recently appeared as the Evangelist in a staged version of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, as Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser) and as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni). His roles in the 2024/25 season include Narraboth (Salome), Erik (Der fliegende Holländer) and Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia). In 2022 he had a great success as Rinaldo in Haydn’s Armida at the Bregenz Festival. His other roles include Belfiore (La finta giardiniera), Ferrando (Così fan tutte) and Beppe (Pagliacci).

On the concert platform he has sung the Evangelist in Bach’s St John Passion with The English Concert under Kristian Bezuidenhout and with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Prégardien, and performed in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and in Haydn’s Creation with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, Dresden and Berlin. Future concert engagements will include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, and Bach’s St John Passion with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Reuss.

As a song recitalist, Kieran Carrel has performed Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with Hartmut Höll, songs by Hugo Wolf with Christoph Prégardien and James Baillieu, works by Haydn with András Schiff at London’s Wigmore Hall and songs by Schubert, Liszt and Britten with Jonathan Ware at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin.

Kieran Carrel’s discography includes the complete Brahms Lieder with Ulrich Eisenlohr and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt with the ensemble Il Gardellino under Bart Van Reyn.