Sebastian Geyer
Baritone
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During the 2026/27 season this versatile popular member of the ensemble's sings Pantalon in a new production of Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges and repeats his portrayals of Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, the Husband in Schönberg's Waiting for Today, the Lord Mayor in Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve (»Performance of the Year 2022« - get the DVD!) and Father in Hänsel und Gretel. Last season he enjoyed great success with Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte when it first opened, Achilla in Giulio Cesare and repeating his portrayals of Albert and the Man with a Mule in Werther and Orff's Clever Woman. These were preceded by Colonel Kottwitz and the Father in new productions of Henze's Prince of Homburg and Reimann's L'invisible and the title role in a new staging of Fortner's Don Perlimplín's Love for Belisa in his Garden. Roles sung at Oper Frankfurt in the past included Handel's Giulio Cesare, Telemann's Orpheus and Cesti's Creonte (LʼOrontea, get the CD! OehmsClassics), Mozart's Don Giovanni, Guglielmo, Graf Almaviva and Papageno, Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus), Basil Basilowitsch(Graf von Luxemburg, get the CD! OehmsClassics), Don Pomponio (Rossini's La gazzetta), Strauss' Graf (Capriccio) and Music Teacher (Ariadne auf Naxos), Janacek's Háraschta (Cunning Little Vixen) and Jaroslav Prus (The Makropoulos Case), Eurymaque (Fauré's Pénélope), roles in three one act operas by Křenek and one of Dante's Inner Voices in the world premiere of Lucia Ronchetti's Inferno. Other roles included the Messenger in Oedipus Rex, which he sang at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, Peisandros in new production of Dallapiccola's Ulisse, Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), 3rd Shepherd (Daphne), Lorek (Giordano's Fedora), Lord Tristan (Flotow's Martha) and Ruggiero in a wonderful new production of Halévy's La Juive, Hermann Ortel in a new Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Ariodate (Xerxes), Rudolf (Schreker's Elusive Sound get the CD! OehmsClassics), Hel Helson (Britten's Paul Bunyan), Barone Tito Belcredi (Trojahn's Enrico), Sebastian (Adès The Tempest) and Ingo in the world premiere of Herrmann's 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 guest engagements 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.