Wolf Matthias Friedrich

Wolf Matthias Friedrich is a classical singer of baritone and bass roles, especially of Early music and Baroque music.

Friedrich studied at the Musikhochschule Leipzig. In 1980, he was the winner of the International Dvorák Competition in Karlovy Vary. From 1982 to 1986 Friedrich was a member of the Opera Studio of the Dresden State Opera. He has focused on Baroque operas. He has often collaborated with the conductor Alessandro De Marchi. In 2002, Friedrich was one of the co-founders of the Kerll-Rosenmüller Festival, which was held annually from 2002 to 2006 to promote the musical heritage of the Baroque composers Johann Caspar Kerll, Johann Rosenmüller and Sebastian Knüpfer.

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Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (Cologne Opera) Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne) Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Cologne) Peranda/Bontempi: Dafne (Dresdner Musikfestspiele) Legrenzi: La divisione del mondo (Schwetzingen Festival) Steffani: Orlando (Hannover Herrenhausen) Handel: Deidamia, Semele (Halle) Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (Potsdam) Handel: Orlando (Göttingen, Drottningholm, Berlin, New York, Tanglewood) Handel: Admeto (Göttingen, Edinburgh) Handel: Rinaldo (Cologne, Prague) Handel: Alcina (Cologne, Wiesbaden) Haydn: Armida (Schwetzingen) Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Hannover Herrenhausen, Wiesbaden) Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (Wiesbaden) Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (Prague) Mozart: Entführung aus dem Serail (Potsdam, Cologne, Wiesbaden) Tschaikowski: Eugene Onegin Zimmermann: Weiße Rose (Schwerin).