Sebastian Geyer
Baritone
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This versatile member of the ensemble's repertoire at Oper Frankfurt includes baroque roles including Handel's Giulio Cesare, Telemann's Orpheus and Cesti's Creonte (LʼOrontea, available on CD - OehmsClassics), Mozart's Don Giovanni, Guglielmo, Graf Almaviva and Papageno, Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus), Basil Basilowitsch (Der Graf von Luxemburg, CD - OehmsClassics), Don Pomponio (Rossini's La gazzetta), Strauss' Graf (Capriccio) and Music Teacher (Ariadne auf Naxos), Janacek's Háraschta (Das schlaue Füchslein / The Cunning Little Vixen) and Jaroslav Prus (Die Sache Makropulos / The Makropoulos Case), Eurymaque (Fauré's Pénélope) and roles in three one act operas by Křenek and the world premiere of Lucia Ronchetti's Inferno. In 2021/22 he sang the Messenger in Oedipus Rex, a role he recently sang at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Mayor, Husband and Peisandros in new productions of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Night Before Christmas, »Performance of the Year« (Opernwelt magazine 2022), Schönberg's Warten auf Heute / Waiting till Tomorrow and Dallapiccola's Ulisse and Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas. This season he sang 3rd Shepherd in Daphne, Lorek in Giordano's Fedora, Lord Tristan in Flotow's Martha, repeated his hilarious portrayal of the Mayor in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Night before Christmas and can be heard in the title role and as Ruggiero in new productions of Fortner's Don Perlimplín's love for Belisa in his Garden and Halévy's La Juive. Last season he sang Hermann Ortel and the Man with a Mule in new productions of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Carl Orff's The Clever Woman, Peter (father) in Hänsel und Gretel, Ariodate in Xerxes and Albert in Werther. Other roles for the company have included Rudolf in Schreker's Der ferne Klang / The Elusive Sound (available on CD - OehmsClassics), Hel Helson in Britten's Paul Bunyan, Barone Tito Belcredi in Trojahn's Enrico, Sebastian in Adès’ The Tempest and Ingo in the world premiere of Herrmann's Der Mieter / The Tenant - commissioned by Oper Frankfurt. He recently sang the title role in Schumann's Szenen aus Goethe's Faust at the Lucerne Festival and Millöcker's Gasparone at the Volksoper in Vienna. He was under contract to Theater Heidelberg before moving to Frankfurt. Other recent guest engagements have included appearances at the Stuttgart and Wiesbaden state operas, the Opéra de Lausanne, Theater Luzern and Schwetzingen's rococo theatre. He teaches singing at the University for Music in Zurich.