Magnus Dietrich

Since the 2023/24 season the tenor Magnus Dietrich has been an ensemble member of the Frankfurt Opera, where he has appeared in roles such as Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Count Hohenzollern (Der Prinz von Homburg), Emilio in Handel’s Partenope, Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Leander in Nielsen’s Maskarade.

In the 2025/26 season he sang Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Pang (Turandot), Assistant /First Vagabond in a double bill of Weill’s Der Zar lässt sich fotografieren and Orff’s Die Kluge and the tenor solo in Haydn’s The Seasons in Frankfurt, along with Tamino at the Salzburg Mozartwoche and the tenor solo in Mozart’s Requiem with the Munich Symphony Orchestra.

Highlights of recent seasons have included his house debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Jaquino (Fidelio), Tamino at the Berlin State Opera and the Semperoper Dresden, Leukippos (Daphne) in Berlin and Frankfurt, Alfred (Die Fledermaus) at the Musikfest Bremen, in Baden-Baden and Valencia and Schubert’s Winterreise in a production choreographed by Christian Spuck in Berlin.

In concert he has sung in Bach’s St John Passion with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, in Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra, in Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang under Thomas Guggeis in Frankfurt, in Elijah with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko and in Schumann’s Paradies und die Peri with the Staatskapelle Berlin under Marc Minkowski at the Philharmonie in Berlin and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. He also appears as a recitalist, and most recently performed Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch in Frankfurt.

He appears regularly at major festivals, including the Internationale Hugo Wolf Akademie, the Bachfest Leipzig, the Kissinger Sommer and the Festival de Saintes. He has toured France, Belgium and the Netherlands in concert with the soloists’ ensemble Vox Luminis. He performs regularly with the ensemble capella sollertia, directed by Johanna Soller, in their concert series Cantate um 1715.

Magnus Dietrich studied at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich and was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Berlin State Opera. He has participated in masterclasses with Piotr Beczała, Andrew Watts, Neil Shicoff, Bo Skovhus and Hedwig Fassbender. He is a prize-winner of the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang and received a scholarship from the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation.

Together with the sopranos Felicitas and Judith Erb and the pianist Doriana Tchakarova he has released an album of duets and romances by Brahms.