Christoph Pohl

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Christoph Pohl
Education Musikhochschule Hannover
OccupationOperatic baritone
Organization Semperoper
Awards Christel-Goltz Prize

Christoph Pohl is a German operatic baritone who has performed at major opera houses in Europe, based at the Semperoper in Dresden from 2005 to 2018.

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Career

Pohl was a member of the Knabenchor Hannover, and then studied voice at the Musikhochschule Hannover with Carol Richardson-Smith. [1] He studied further as a member of the studio of the Hamburg State Opera from 2003 to 2005. He then became a member of the Semperoper in Dresden, where he remained until 2018. [1] He appeared as Mozart's Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro , Guglielmo in Così fan tutte , Papageno in Die Zauberflöte , as Rossini's Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia , Dandini in La Cenerentola , as Belcore in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore , Verdi's Giorgio Germont in La traviata and Posa in Don Carlos , as Valentin in Gounod's Faust , Chorèbe in Les Troyens by Berlioz, Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhäuser , the title role of Weinberger's Schwanda the Bagpiper), Puccini's Lescaut in Manon Lescaut , Marcello in La bohème , Sharpless in Madama Butterfly , Spielmann in Humperdinck's Königskinder , Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, Danilo in Léhar's Die lustige Witwe , and the title role in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin . [2] He was awarded the Christel-Goltz Prize of the Semperoper Foundation in 2008. [1]

In 2015, Pohl first appeared at the Royal Opera House in London as Johannes in the world premiere of Morgen und Abend by Georg Friedrich Haas, [2] in a copoduction with the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The composer had written the role especially for his voice. [3] He returned to London for Verdi's Posa in Don Carlo and Germont in La traviata . [2] He performed as a guest also at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Oper Leipzig, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Opéra de Lyon and La Fenice in Venice. [1] He appeared at the Bavarian State Opera in the 2020–21 season as Frank in Korngold's Die tote Stadt . [4]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Christoph Pohl". Royal Opera House. 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  3. "Christoph Pohl". Deutsche Oper Berlin (in German). 2021. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
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