Patrick Vogel (* 1982[ citation needed ] in Berlin) is a German operatic tenor.
Vogel grew up in Berlin, where he lived with his father from the age of 9 after his parents' divorce. [1] He trained as a bicycle mechanic, [2] started classical singing the age of 18, [1] and begann to study singing at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" a year later [1] with Roman Trekel and Snezana Brzakovic. [3]
Vogel made his debut at Berlin State Opera in 2005 as third Esquire in Wagner's Parsifal . [4] He joined the International Opera Studio Zürich for the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons, [5] [6] where he sang Lysander and Snout in Britten's A Midsummer Nights's Dream in German, [7] followed by an engagement as lyric tenor at Stadttheater Klagenfurt in the 2012/13 season. [2] In Summer 2013 he sang Spärlich and Fenton in Otto Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor at Operklosterneuburg, [8] [9] the following year Ping Schma Fu in the world premier of Peter Ronnefeld's chamber opera Nachtausgabe in Dresden, [10] and Jonas in Zeisls Hiob at the Bavarian State Opera. [11] In 2015 Vogel was Edward Fairfax Vere in Britten's Billy Budd in a performance at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, [12] and joined the ensemble of the Leipzig Opera. [13] In 2016 he was a guest at Teatro Carlo Felice as Narraboth in Strauss' Salome , [14] and Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni both with conductor Fabio Luisi. [15] He sang the Lamplighter and the Dance Master in a concert performance of Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the Salzburg Festival, [16] Elemer in Strauss' Arabella [17] and Walther von der Vogelweide in Wagner's Tannhäuser as a guest at Semperoper Dresden in 2018, and the Painter in Alban Berg's Lulu in Leipzig. [18] In 2019 he made his debut at the Salzburg Easter Festival as Eißlinger in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with conductor Christian Thielemann. [19] He attended a master class by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in 2007, [20] and by Brigitte Fassbaender in 2017. [21]
As concert soloist Vogel sang the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion under conductor Helmuth Rilling 2013 in Chile, [28] the tenor solos in Niels Wilhelm Gade's Korsfarerne, Op. 50 (The Crusaders) with Sing-Akademie zu Berlin in 2017, [29] and 2018 the Verdi's Requiem at the Konzerthaus Berlin. [30]