Detlef Roth

Detlef Roth (born 1969) is a German operatic baritone and bass.
Life and career.
Born in Freudenstadt, Roth studied singing with Georg Jelden at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. During his studies he won the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin in 1990, the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna in 1992 and the International Singing Competition for Wagner Voices in Strasbourg in 1994.
His opera repertoire includes works by Richard Wagner such as Wolfram von Eschenbach in "Tannhäuser", Der Heerufer des Königs in "Lohengrin", Donner in "Das Rheingold", Amfortas in "Parsifal" and Gunther in "Götterdämmerung". Other vocal parts are Papageno in "Die Zauberflöte" by Mozart, Count Almaviva in "Le Nozze di Figaro" by Mozart and roles in "Hans Heiling" by Heinrich Marschner, "Die Bassariden" by Hans Werner Henze and "Königskinder" by Engelbert Humperdinck.
His repertoire as a concert singer includes "Elias" by Felix Mendelssohn , "A German Requiem" by Johannes Brahms, among others, "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff, Passions, masses and oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach and Lieder by Franz Schubert.
Roth sang at the Milanese la Scala, the Royal Opera House in London, the Lincoln Center in New York and the Paris Opera and performed at the Bayreuth Festival, the Salzburg Festival and the Salzburg Easter Festival. Well-known orchestras with which he has sung include the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. With the French soprano Sandrine Piau and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France he performed Mozart's love arias at the Cité de la musique in Paris.