Klaus Florian Vogt is one of the outstanding Wagner tenors of our time. His repertoire mainly includes dramatic roles such as Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Stolzing, Siegmund, Siegfried (in Siegfried and Götterdämmerung), and Tristan, but he also sings with great success lyric-dramatic roles like Prince (Rusalka) and Faust (La Damnation de Faust).

Klaus Florian Vogt is a sought-after guest at all the major opera houses worldwide, as well as at the Bayreuth Festival, the Salzburg Festival, and numerous other festivals. His engagements have taken him to opera houses in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, London, Zurich, Barcelona, Vienna, Madrid, Milan, Toulouse, Helsinki, New York, and Tokyo, among others. In 2005, he made his debut in Japan as Hoffmann (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) in Tokyo, and in 2006, he debuted in America as Lohengrin at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 2007, he sang at the Milan Scala for the first time (Lohengrin), later returning as Florestan (Fidelio). In 2023, he made his role debut as Siegfried in Siegfried and Götterdämmerung at the Zurich Opera. With his debut as Tristan in January 2024 at the Semperoper Dresden, conducted by Christian Thielemann, Klaus Florian Vogt completed the final piece of his Wagner repertoire.

In 2007, he made a triumphant debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Walther von Stolzing in the new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, directed by Katharina Wagner. From 2011 to 2015, he enjoyed another great success there as Lohengrin in the production by Hans Neuenfels. In the summer of 2016, Klaus Florian Vogt took on the title role in the new production of Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival, conducted by Hartmut Haenchen. From 2017 to 2021, he performed as Stolzing in Barrie Kosky’s production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Bayreuth. In 2019, he returned as Lohengrin to the festival, and in 2021, he performed Siegmund in Die Walküre. In 2022, he appeared in this role in the new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen directed by Valentin Schwarz. In 2023, he sang the title role in Tannhäuser for the first time at Bayreuth, and in 2024, he made his debut as Siegfried in Siegfried and Götterdämmerung and also took on the title role in Tannhäuser once again.

As Lohengrin, Klaus Florian Vogt performs all over the world. There is no other singer who has achieved such artistic success in the role of Wagner’s Grail Knight. He has performed this part at the Milan Scala, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House in London, the Vienna State Opera, the Zurich Opera, the New National Theatre Tokyo, the Bavarian State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera, at the Whitsun Festival in Baden-Baden, and of course, several times at the Bayreuth Festival.

Klaus Florian Vogt, who hails from northern Germany, began his musical career as a horn player in the Philharmonic State Orchestra of Hamburg. At the same time, he began studying singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Lübeck. In 1997/98, he was engaged at the Landestheater Flensburg, and from 1998 to 2003, he was a member of the ensemble at the Semperoper Dresden. Since 2003, he has been working as a freelance artist.

As a concert and lieder singer, Klaus Florian Vogt has also made a name for himself. His performances have taken him to Vienna, Milan, New York, the Tanglewood Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, London, Athens, Berlin, and Leipzig, as well as to the Salzburg Festival. His repertoire includes works by Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Verdi, Flotow, and, of course, Wagner. A major success came in 2019 with the world premiere of a chamber music version of Franz Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. On the concert stage, he has collaborated with orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, and the Munich Philharmonic, and with conductors like Daniel Barenboim, Philipp Jordan, Kent Nagano, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Antonio Pappano, Christian Thielemann, and Simone Young. As a lieder singer, he has interpreted works by Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, Mahler, and Strauss with great success.

Klaus Florian Vogt has numerous recordings and solo albums. His three solo CDs, Helden (2012) with the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin conducted by Peter Schneider, Wagner (2013) with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Nott, and Favorites (2014) with operetta arias and musical pieces with the Munich Radio Orchestra conducted by Gerrit Prießnitz, were released by SONY Classical. He has also recorded Korngold’s Die tote Stadt with the Frankfurt Opera under Sebastian Weigle (Oehms Classics), a CD and DVD with hits from Berlin to Broadway with Renée Fleming conducted by Christian Thielemann (Deutsche Grammophon), and a complete recording of Lohengrin with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marek Janowski. In January 2016, a live recording of Franz Schmidt’s Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln from the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg conducted by Simone Young was released (Oehms Classics). In March 2017, a complete recording of Lohengrin with the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam conducted by Sir Mark Elder was released. His Bayreuth Festival recordings include Lohengrin, Parsifal, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg as DVDs, the latter of which was awarded the OPUS Klassik in October 2019. In 2023, the new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg from the Deutsche Oper Berlin was released on DVD (Naxos), and since 2023, Die schöne Müllerin in a chamber music version with the Ensemble Acht has been available (cpo). In 2012, Klaus Florian Vogt received the ECHO Klassik award as Artist of the Year. In 2019, the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg honored him with the title of “Hamburg Kammersänger.” In 2025, he was awarded the Best Singer prize at the Oper! Awards in Brussels.

Klaus Florian Vogt will be the soloist at the concert on 3. August 2025.