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Backstage with Klaus Florian Vogt: “Hier kennt einer das Fürchten nicht” on DVD
This is her second film portrait of the tenor: Director Astrid Bscher accompanied Klaus Florian Vogt backstage in Dresden, Bayreuth, and Zurich, capturing very personal moments of the artist on camera. She meets him, for example, while he is studying his role, or backstage just moments before his performance, before he sings his first Tristan on stage. The DVD “Hier kennt einer das Fürchten nicht” is now available from the Gramola label.
“Te Deum” at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg
A concert by the Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach Choir Hamburg combines music by Richard Wagner and Walter Braunfels. The soloists are Camilla Nylund and Klaus Florian Vogt, with Hansjörg Albrecht conducting the Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra. Walter Braunfels’ “Te Deum,” which builds on Gustav Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand,” brought the composer worldwide fame; now it will be performed in symphonic splendor at the Elbphilharmonie.
June 23, 2026, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Vita
Klaus Florian Vogt is one of today’s outstanding Wagner tenors. His repertoire includes mainly dramatic roles such as Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhäuser, Stolzin, Siegmund, Siegfried and Tristan as well as Florestan (“Fidelio”) and Paul (“Die tote Stadt”). He is in demand as a guest at all the world’s major opera houses and at the Bayreuth Festivals, the Salzburg Festivals and numerous international festivals.
Opera houses to which engagements have taken him include those in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Zurich, Paris, London, Barcelona, Vienna, Madrid, Milan, Toulouse, Helsinki and New York. In 2007 Klaus Florian Vogt gave his triumphal debut as Walther von Stolzing at the Bayreuth Festival in a new staging by Katharina Wagner of „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“. From 2011 to 2015 he achieved further notable success as Lohengrin in the staging by Hans Neuenfels. In 2016 the audience saw him in the titel role of a new production of „Parsifal“ under the baton of Hartmut Haenchen. From 2017-2021 he has performed Stolzing in an other new Bayreuth production of „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg”, directed by Barrie Kosky and conducted by Philippe Jordan, in 2019 he returend to the festival also for the title role in „Lohengrin” in the production from 2018. In 2022 he starred in the role of Siegmund in the new production of the "Ring" cycle as well as in "Lohengrin". In 2024 he performed the role of Tannhäuser and Siegfried in the "Ring" clycle at the festival.
Klaus Florian has made worldwide guest appearances as Lohengrin. There is currently no other singer who is so artistically successful in the role of Wagner’s Knight of the Grail. Opera houses in which he has been seen in the role include La Scala Milan, the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Vienna State Opera, Zürich Opera, the New National Theatre in Tokyo, the Bavarian State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburg State Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, at the Baden-Baden Festival, and of course at the Bayreuth Festival. Klaus Florian Vogt has also made a name for himself as a concert singer and Lied interpreter. He has made several appearances in Vienna, New York, the Tanglewood Festival, London, Athens, Berlin, Leipzig and the Salzburg Festivals, among other places. He achieved great success in 2019 with the premiere of a chamber music version of Franz Schubert's „Die schöne Müllerin“ at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, which also has been released on CD. He works with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Andris Nelsons, Christian Thielemann, Simone Young, Philipp Jordan and Kent Nagano. Numerous recordings and solo albums by Klaus Florian Vogt are available, including the three solo CDs “Helden” (Heroes). In 2019 the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg honours Klaus Florian Vogt with the title „Hamburger Kammersänger“. In 2025 he has been honored as Best Singer at the Opera! Awards in Brussels.
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Klaus Florian Vogt, Ensemble Acht, 2023
Klaus Florian Vogt commissioned a version of Schubert's famous 20-song cycle for tenor and chamber ensemble, which he and Ensemble Acht premiered at a concert in the Elbphilharmonie on March 24, 2019. The original accompanying piano was replaced by an octet instrumentation created by Schubert himself with clarinet, bassoon, horn, two violins, viola, cello and double bass. The arrangement of the chamber music version is by the composer Andreas N. Tarkmann. The CD has been released by cpo in 2023.