Georg Zeppenfeld
Bass Georg Zeppenfeld initially trained as a teacher specialising in music and German. He studied concert and opera in parallel at Detmold University of Music and the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne, ultimately with Hans Sotin. After full-time contracts at Münster and Bonn he was engaged in 2001 by the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, which is still his artistic base. He has also performed as a guest at almost all the leading opera houses of Europe and the United States, and the world’s leading concert venues. His repertoire includes Figaro and Bartolo (Le nozze di Figaro), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Rocco (Fidelio), Kaspar (Der Freischütz), König Karl (Fierrabras), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Banco (Macbeth), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), Padre Guardiano (Forza del destino), Filippo II (Don Carlo), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Landgraf Herrmann (Tannhäuser), König Heinrich (Lohengrin), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Fasolt (Das Rheingold), Hunding (Die Walküre), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Veit Pogner and Hans Sachs (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), Baculus (Wildschütz), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), the Waterman (Rusalka), Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande), Pimen (Boris Godunov), Peneios (Daphne) and La Roche (Capriccio). A key role is Sarastro (The Magic Flute) which he has performed with great success not only at the Semperoper, but also at the San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera, the Salzburg Festival (under Nikolaus Harnoncourt), Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Zurich Opera and the Bavarian State Opera. He has been a regular guest in the great bass roles at the Bayreuth Festival since 2010. His highly acclaimed début in the role of Hans Sachs in The Mastersingers of Nuremberg at the 2019 Salzburg Easter Festival under Christian Thielemann marked a new high point in the ultimate role in the bass repertoire. Georg Zeppenfeld has a particular love for concert performances. He was awarded the professional status of Kammersänger at the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden in 2015.
Performances with Georg Zeppenfeld
with Georg Zeppenfeld, Clay Hilley, Ludovic Tézier, Camilla Nylund, Ekaterina Gubanova, Conductor: Axel Kober
Tannhäuser
Cast on Sunday 14. September 2025
with Georg Zeppenfeld, Clay Hilley, Ludovic Tézier, Camilla Nylund, Ekaterina Gubanova, Conductor: Axel Kober
Tannhäuser
Cast on Wednesday 17. September 2025
Abo 10
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Saison 2024/2025
Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
20. November 2024: MANON
11. Dezember 2024: IL TROVATORE
05. Februar 2025: BALLETT: DORNRÖSCHEN
12. März 2025: NORMA
02. April 2025: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
with Georg Zeppenfeld, Clay Hilley, Ludovic Tézier, Camilla Nylund, Ekaterina Gubanova, Conductor: Axel Kober
Tannhäuser
Cast on Sunday 21. September 2025
Abo 24
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Saison 2024/2025
Einen Wochentag und Lieblingsplätze wählen und fünf Vorstellungen in einer Saison genießen.
In diesem Abo sind folgende Vorstellungen enthalten:
20. Oktober 2024: COSÌ FAN TUTTE
17. November 2024: MANON
26. Jänner 2025: LA BOHÈME
23. Februar 2025: FIDELIO
11. Mai 2025: BALLETT: PATHÉTIQUE
with Georg Zeppenfeld, Clay Hilley, Ludovic Tézier, Camilla Nylund, Ekaterina Gubanova, Conductor: Axel Kober
Tannhäuser
Cast on Wednesday 24. September 2025