STEFAN VINKE

German Heldentenor, he graduated as a church musician at the Cologne College of Music before beginning his professional singing career in Karlsruhe and Krefeld-Mönchen- gladbach. In 1999 he was awarded the position of “Young Heroic Tenor” at the Mannheim National Theatre where in 2000 he was voted “Male Newcomer of the Year” by Opernwelt magazine. Globally renowned as an interpreter of Wagner’s great tenor roles, he has sung the title roles of Tristan und Isolde, Siegfried, Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Lohengrin and Rienzi, also Siegmund (Die Walküre), Siegfried (Götterdämmerung), Erik (Der fliegende Holländer), and Walther von Stolzing (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). Αt the Bayreuth Festival he has been Tristan in two productions, Siegfried (Siegfried and Götterdämmerung) and Walther von Stolzing. His numerous Ring cycle appearances include prestigious theatres and festivals worldwide. Moreover, he has sung a wide repertoire in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Munich, Paris, Montpellier, Lisbon, Barcelona, Venice, Madrid, Sydney, Bejing, Geneva, Chicago, Seattle, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Salzburg.