The German-Romanian baritone Konstantin Krimmel began his musical training in the boys’ choir of St Georg’s Church in Ulm. In 2020 he completed his singing studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart with Teru Yoshihara. He was a member of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme. In 2023 he was acclaimed as ‘Best Newcomer’ at the Oper! Awards, in 2024 he received an OPUS Klassik in the category ‘Singer of the Year’, and most recently in 2026 he received the Herbert von Karajan Award.
Since autumn 2021 he has been an ensemble member of the Bavarian State Opera, where he has sung major roles in his voice type, including the title roles in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro and in Don Giovanni, Zoroastro (Orlando), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos), along with roles in Hosokawa’s Hanjo and Haas’s Thomas.
At the Bavarian State Opera in 2025/26 he sang Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Don Giovanni and Figaro. He also appeared as Figaro at the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona. His other performances included Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and Haydn’s The Creation with the Berlin Philharmonic under Daniel Harding at the Salzburg Easter Festival, concerts with the Staatskapelle Berlin and Christian Thielemann, with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra under Peter Whelan, and at the Verbier Festival. His season has also included around thirty song recitals with his regular keyboard partners Ammiel Bushakevitz and Daniel Heide. He most recently appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 2024 as Olivier (Capriccio).
Concert and song repertory is a major part of his activity. He has appeared in song recitals at the Cologne Philharmonie, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Berlin Konzerthaus and the Vienna Konzerthaus, at London’s Wigmore Hall, at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, the Schubertíada in Vilabertran, the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade and the Oxford International Song Festival.
His discography includes two albums with Daniel Heide: Die schöne Müllerin (Alpha Classics label, German Record Critics’ Award) and the Liszt programme Der du vom Himmel bist (Avi), along with the albums Silent Songs and For Clara (Deutsche Grammophon) with Hélène Grimaud, the aria album Zauberoper with the Munich Hofkapelle, and, with Ammiel Bushakevitz, the album Mythos: Schubert & Loewe (Alpha Classics), which was awarded the Edison Classical Award in 2025.
