Klaus Florian Vogt

A native of Heide in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Klaus Florian Vogt began his musical career in 1988 as a horn player in the Hamburg Philharmonic Staatsorchester. Parallel to his orchestral activities, he studied singing with Günter Binge at the Lübeck Academy of Music and was engaged as a tenor in the ensemble of the Flensburg Staatstheater in 1997. He moved in the following year to the Saxon Staatsoper Dresden and has been working as a freelance tenor since 2003. After beginning his career as a lyric tenor, Vogt first took on Wagner’s Lohengrin in 2002, a role that is still considered his signature today. Other Wagner roles followed, such as Walther von Stolzing from Die Meistersinger, Parsifal, Erik in Der fliegende Holländer, and Loge in Das Rheingold. In 2006, Vogt made his American debut as Lohengrin at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His Bayreuth debut followed in 2007 with Stolzing, which he also performed there from 2017 to 2021 in Barrie Kosky’s production; in 2022 he appeared at the Wagner Festival as Siegmund in Die Walküre. Vogt first performed at the Vienna Staatsoper in 2008, and his credits at the Bavarian Staatsoper have included Andrei in Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina and the Prince in Dvořák’s Rusalka. He also expanded his repertoire with the title role in Wagner’s Tannhäuser in a new production in Munich in 2017; in the spring of 2023, he will perform his first Siegfried in the Ring of the Nibelung at Zurich Opera. The 2022-23 season also includes new productions of Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Bavarian Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic. Klaus Florian Vogt was awarded the Art Prize of the State of Schleswig-Holstein in 2008 and the European Art Prize in 2015; he received the Echo Klassik Singer of the Year Award in 2012. Vogt has been a Hamburg Kammersänger since 2019.

Lucerne Festival debut on 1 April 2006 as “a half-hearted but later zealous Christian” in Mozart’s The Obligation of the First Commandment under Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

August 2022