Klaus Florian Vogt | |
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 Vogt in 2015 | |
| Born | 12 April 1970 Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany |
| Education | Lübeck Academy of Music |
| Occupation | Classical operatic tenor |
| Organization | Semperoper |
Klaus Florian Vogt (born 12 April 1970) is a German operatic tenor. He has often sung roles written by Richard Wagner.
Klaus Florian Vogt was a hornist first and played for several years with the Hamburg Philharmonic. He studied voice at the Lübeck Academy of Music and was first engaged at the Landestheater in Flensburg. [1]
In 1998 he moved to the Semperoper in Dresden, where he worked with Giuseppe Sinopoli and Colin Davis. He started as a lyrical tenor, singing Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte , then also Hans in Smetana's The Bartered Bride and Matteo in Strauss' Arabella .
He sang Wagner's Lohengrin first at the Theater Erfurt in 2002, followed by international appearances in this part and also as Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , his debut part at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 2007, and Parsifal .
In the concert repertoire, he recorded Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde , with Christian Gerhaher and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano in 2009. [2]
Several reviewers have characterized Vogt's voice as "reedy". [3] [4] [5] [6]
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