Kay Stiefermann

The German baritone Kay Stiefermann studied with Kurt Moll in Cologne and took masterclasses with Montserrat Caballé and Hans Hotter. He was an ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera from 1997 to 2001. In recent years he has mainly sung German repertoire such as Amfortas Parsifal, Kurwenal Tristan und Isolde, Gyges König Kandaules, Mandryka Arabella and Don Pizarro Fidelio. He has made guest appearances at the State Opera Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, the Volksoper Wien, and the opera houses of Hannover, Düsseldorf and Darmstadt, as well as at the Ruhrtriennale and the Lincoln Center Festival New York. Recently he sang Amfortas (Teatro Regio di Torino), Marcello in a new production of La bohème, Simone Eine florentinische Tragödie (Wuppertaler Bühnen) and Gyges in the Teatro Massimo Palermo. Kay Stiefermann has worked with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand de Billy, Ulf Schirmer, Hartmut Haenchen, Kirill Petrenko, Kent Nagano and Valery Gergiev. Upcoming role: Danilo Die lustige Witwe (Wiener Volksoper).