The German baritone Matthias Goerne is one of the world’s most versatile and sought-after singers in his voice type. He appears regularly at leading concert halls and opera houses such as the Vienna and Bavarian State Operas, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, La Scala, Milan, the Paris Opéra, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as well as at major festivals. He has worked with renowned conductors including Claudio Abbado, Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly, Gustavo Dudamel, Paavo Järvi, Mariss Jansons, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Seiji Ozawa, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Franz Welser-Möst.
His operatic repertory ranges from major Wagner and Strauss roles to Bluebeard (Duke Bluebeard’s Castle) and the title role of Wozzeck. As an ambassador for German Lied, from Schubert to Brahms and from Berg to Eisler, Matthias Goerne has earned the highest reputation worldwide. He has given numerous world premieres of works by composers from Karl Amadeus Hartmann and Bernd Alois Zimmermann to Thomas Larcher.
In the 2024/25 season he is artist in residence with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Other engagements include a tour of Asia with Maria João Pires and an Australian tour with Daniil Trifonov, appearances at the Vienna Musikverein in John Adams’s The Wound-Dresser under Marin Alsop, at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi and with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Lahav Shani. He also sings Bluebeard with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Wozzeck with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Frank Martin’s Six Monologues from ‘Jedermann’ at the Bavarian State Opera.
His work has been documented on numerous recordings, many of which have won multiple awards. He released a recording of Beethoven songs with Jan Lisiecki in 2020, songs by Pfitzner, Strauss and Wagner with Seong-Jin Cho in 2021, and, in 2022, LIEDER with Daniil Trifonov, all on Deutsche Grammophon. His most recent recording, Schubert Revisited, was released in 2023.
Matthias Goerne studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer in Leipzig, as well as with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London.
