Biography
Matthias Goerne, one of the world’s foremost baritones, is acclaimed for his profound
interpretations of opera and art song. He has performed at top houses including the
Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Paris National Opera, and Vienna State Opera, in
roles such as Wotan, Amfortas, Marke, Bluebeard, and Wozzeck. He collaborates with leading
conductors—Simon Rattle, Kirill Petrenko, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Franz
Welser-Möst, Herbert Blomstedt, Myung-Whun Chung, Fabio Luisi, Andris Nelsons, Manfred
Honeck, Jaap van Zweden, Daniel Harding, Alan Gilbert and Yannick Nézet-Séguin—and
appears regularly with major orchestras and festivals.
Full Biography
Matthias Goerne, one of the world’s foremost baritones, is acclaimed for his profound
interpretations of opera and art song. He has performed at top houses including the
Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Paris National Opera, and Vienna State Opera, in
roles such as Wotan, Amfortas, Marke, Bluebeard, and Wozzeck. He collaborates with leading
conductors—Simon Rattle, Kirill Petrenko, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Franz
Welser-Möst, Herbert Blomstedt, Myung-Whun Chung, Fabio Luisi, Andris Nelsons, Manfred
Honeck, Jaap van Zweden, Daniel Harding, Alan Gilbert and Yannick Nézet-Séguin—and
appears regularly with major orchestras and festivals.
An acclaimed recording artist with numerous awards and five Grammy nominations,
Goerne is a member of the Royal Philharmonic Society. Expanding his artistic scope, he
debuted as stage director in Salome in Toulouse. Recent highlights include a Schubert’s
song cycle with Maria João Pires and Daniil Trifonov, performed across Europe, North
America, Australia, and Asia, and the world premiere of Jörg Widmann’s Schumannliebe.
Goerne works with renowned pianists such as Pierre Laurent Aimard, Leif Ove Andsnes,
Vladimir Ashkenasi, Alfred Brendel, Christoph Eschenbach, Markus Hinterhäuser,
Alexandre Kantarov, Evgeny Kissin, Vikingur Olafson, Maria Joao Pires and Daniil Trifonov.
Born in Weimar, he studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau.
