Andreas Schmidt

Andreas Schmidt (born 30 June 1960 in Düsseldorf) is a German classical bass-baritone in opera and concert.

Career Andreas Schmidt studied church music with his father Hartmut Schmidt and singing with Ingeborg Reichelt and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

His 1984 debut was in the part of Malatesta in Donizetti's Don Pasquale at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He became a member of the opera house, appearing in Mozart roles such as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte or Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, as Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhäuser, Posa in Verdi's Don Carlos, and Marcello in Puccini's La Bohème. He created there the title role of Wolfgang Rihm's opera Oedipus in 1987 and the role of Ryuji in Hans Werner Henze's Das verratene Meer in 1990. He has appeared as a guest at the Hamburger Staatsoper, the Berlin State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Grand Theátre Genf, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Opéra de Paris, the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, La Scala Milano, and the Metropolitan Opera.

As a recitalist, he recorded for example Lieder of Johannes Brahms together with Juliane Banse, Iris Vermillion and pianist Helmut Deutsch.

He received the title Kammersänger in 1997. He has been teaching since 2005 at the Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" Dresden and was appointed professor in 2007. Starting in 2010 he is a teacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.

Videography New Year's Eve Concert 1992: Richard Strauss Gala, conducted by Claudio Abbado. Kultur Video DVD, D4209, 2007