During Simon Bailey's years as a much loved member of the Ensemble in Frankfurt his many roles included Peter (the Father) (Hänsel und Gretel), Mr Redburn (Billy Budd), Gunther (Götterdämmerung), Klingsor (Parsifal), Gelone (Cesti's L’Orontea - get the CD! OehmsCassics), Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola), Orest (Elektra), Křenek's Adam Ochsenschwanz (Heavyweight or the Glory of the Nation) and the title role in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle. This British artist's recent engagements have included Achilla (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Don Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Mozart's Figaro, Leporello (Don Giovanni), Kutusov (Prokofiev's War and Peace), Méphistophélès (La damnation de Faust), the four Villains (Les contes d’Hoffmann), Jochanaan (Salome), Balstrode (Peter Grimes) and the Judge of the Dead (Lucullus' Condemnation) at places including Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, Basel, Strasbourg, Brussels, London and Milan. This winner of the 2018 Wales Theatre Awards added the roles of Wotan and the Wanderer to his repertoire after enjoying great success with them at the Tirol Festival in Erl, in a new Ring directed by Brigitte Fassbaender. Now we can all look forward to hearing this wonderful singer and friend again, in recital!

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Simon Bailey (bass-baritone) & Anne Larlee (piano)

Oper Frankfurt

Joseph Calleja is one of the most sought-after singers alive today. His supple, beguiling voice, often compared to legendary tenors including Gigli, Pavarotti and Caruso, has taken him to leading opera houses all over the world. During the 2024/25 season engagements included Rodolfo in La bohème at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Semperoper in Dresden, and concerts for the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society, in Shanghai's Performing Arts Center (his debut in China) and the Musiikkitalo in Helsinki. Now he's back at Oper Frankfurt, where roles he thrilled audiences with included Gounod's Roméo, the title role in Mascagni's L’amico Fritz (in concert), Rodolfo, Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Don José (Carmen), and Nadir and Ruggero in concert performances of Bizet's Les pêcheurs des perles and Puccini's La rondine, and a recital with Tatiana Lisnic, for this recital. The Maltese government made him their country's Cultural Ambassador in 2012 and France bestowed the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on him in 2024. Welcome back, Joseph Calleja!

Joseph Calleja (tenor) & Sarah Tysman (piano)

One of the leading mezzo-sopranos of our time is back in Frankfurt, where she thrilled audiences with Sesto (role debut) in La clemenza di Tito, Charlotte inWerther, Marguerite, in a new La damnation de Faust, and Sara in concert performances of Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, for this recital with her friend and accompanist Julius Drake, with whom she gave two other unforgettable recitals here. This British artist is a regular guest at leading houses in Europe and the USA, singing roles including Carmen, Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia), Ariodante, Xerxes, Agrippina, Ruggiero (Alcina), Dejanira (Hercules), Madame de Croissy, Mère Marie (Dialogues des Carmélites) and Cassandra (Les Troyens). Much sought-after as a Lieder singer she appears regularly in recital at venues including the Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam - there are lots of prize-winning recordings to choose from, full of thrilling and profound interpretations of Lieder you love. Alice Coote received an OBE for her services to music in 2018.

Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) & Julius Drake (piano)

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Evgeny Kissin, Piano

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Patrick Grahl's wonderful voice and oustanding diction has made him one of the most sought-after tenors of his generation, in particular for oratorio and concert work, working regularly with musicians including the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, the NDR Radio Philharmonie, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and London Symphony Orchestra with conductors such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Simon Rattle and Philippe Herreweghe. Born in Leipzig, he was a member of the Thomanerchors before studying for his masters at the »Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy« university. Alongside his busy operatic career, which has taken him to places including Venice, Helsinki, Budapest and Lyon, he is passionate about singing Lieder. Don't miss the chance to hear him with his pianist Klara Hornig singing works you've probably never heard before, by Wilhelm Weismann, Rudolf Wagner-Regény, Hanns Eisler and Johannes Weyrauch, which you can hear again if you buy their much praised recording Das ferne Lied.

Patrick Grahl (tenor) & Klara Hornig (piano)

This petite American soprano with an enormous voice is back in Frankfurt, where she thrilled audiences in recent seasons as Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, for this recital. Recent opportunities for her versatile abilities to shine included appearances at the Aix-en-Provence Festival,  where she can be heard again soon in a Gluck double-bill as young Iphigenie in Aulis and the older Iphigenie auf Tauris. She sang the title role in Janáček's Katja Kabanová, one of her finest roles, at the Salzburg Festival (get the DVD), in Munich, Stuttgart, Rome, Geneva, Brno and Seattle. Get a copy of her debut CD:Canción amorosa - with Lieder from Spain. She's putting together a special programme for Frankfurt, inspired by Nadezhda von Meck (1831 - 1894), a Russian amateur musician and valued confidante and patron of Tchaikovsky and Debussy, who also influenced Janáček and Glière.

Corinne Winters (soprano) & Simon Lepper (piano)

Franz-Josef Selig, with his sonorous bass voice, is one of the best loved and known representatives of his fach, much in demand for his wonderful portrayals of characters including Gurnemanz, King Marke, Sarastro, Rocco, Osmin and Fiesco which he performs regularly at places including the Salzburg, Bayreuth and Aix-en-Provence festivals, the Bavarian and Vienna state operas, La Scala Milan and Metropolitan Opera in New York, working with conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Sir Simon Rattle and Zubin Mehta. Now he's back at  Oper Frankfurt, where he sang Gurnemanz in Wagner's Parsifal in 2019, to give his second recital here with Gerold Huber (the first was in 2014). We look forward to welcoming these two exceptional musicians back to the house!

Franz-Josef Selig (bass) & Gerold Huber (piano)

Slávka Zámečníková has been wowing audiences and the press in recent years with her »crystal clear, luminous voice«: this Slovakian soprano became one of the world's shooting-stars after winning prizes at leading competitions (including Neue Stimmen in Gütersloh) and making her debuts at the Vienna and Berlin state operas, the Opéra national de Paris and San Francisco Opera. She enjoys a close relationship with the Vienna State Opera, where she thrilled audiences with roles including Norina (Don Pasquale), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Micaëla (Carmen), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and was nominated for Austria's Theatre Prize for her portrayal of the title role in Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea. Recent concert work has taken her to venues including the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Philharmonie de Paris, Rheingau Musik Festival and the Konzerthaus in Berlin. This young singer, and passionate Lieder singer, is looking forward to making her debut at Oper Frankfurt in this recital, and so are we!

Slávka Zámečníková (Soprano) & Matthias Samuil (piano)

As on stage, she’s not just a singer when she sings Lieder, but a performer, playing the mourning woman, yearning lover or nature loving wanderer«, wrote a critic from the Frankfurter Rundschau about the Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian’s last recital at Oper Frankfurt. Since her triumphant Salome in Salzburg in 2018 she’s been a regular guest at leading opera houses around the world, including Covent Garden, La Scala Milan, the Vienna State Opera, where she sang her first Turdandots last season, and the Met in New York. Her roles in Frankfurt were the lead ladies in new productions of Manon Lescaut and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta & The Sorceress (now available on DVD!). Her love of Lieder shines through in recital, in venues including the Wigmore Hall in London, and several CDs, and a recording of Strauss’ Four Last Songs was released recently by Alpha Classics. We look forward eagerly to this extraordinary artist's next recital in Frankfurt!

Asmik Grigorian (Soprano) & Lukas Geniušas (Piano)

One of the world’s great basses, the Semperoper in Berlin, his former home house, made him a Kammersänger in 2015. He enjoys international success in German and Italian roles and symphonic repertoire. It’s not unusual for Georg Zeppenfeld to be heard singing four or five roles during one Bayreuth festival, such as Hunding, Daland, King Marke, Gurnemanz, Landgraf Hermann, Heinrich der Vogler or Veit Pogner, a role he jumped in to sing at Oper Frankfurt when making his house debut in 2022. High time to bring this much sought-after artist back to the Main – this time in recital, with the wonderful Gerold Huber. Don’t miss the chance of hearing what promises to be a special recital, with Lieder by Schubert, Brahms and Wolf.

Georg Zeppenfeld (Bass) & Gerold Huber (Piano)

This much sought-after, fascinating tenor is at home on the leading stages of the world. He’s a heroic tenor who started his career in bel canto and Rossini roles. Recent engagements have included Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra in London, Genoa and Vienna, Ernani and Verdi’s Requiem conducted by Riccardo Muti in Tokyo, Baden-Baden and the Salzburg Festival, Aida at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and in concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Muti. He’s a regular guest at houses including the Semperoper in Dresden, La Scala Milan and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Rome Opera, the Margitszigeti Színház in Budapest, Arena di Verona, Covent Garden and the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence. He went on tour to Tokyo with Verdi‘s La traviata before returning to open La Scala’s season, for the sixth time, last year, with Don Carlo. Francesco Meli’s appearing at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, in recital with his pianist Davide Cavalli.

Francesco Meli (Tenor) & Davide Cavalli (Piano)

Star tenor Matthew Polenzani’s back in Frankfurt, where he took part in a wonderful open air concert outside Frankfurt’s town hall last year, with his pianist Julius Drake. He’s undeniably one of the leading lyric tenors of his generation, whose rocketing international career’s been linked to Oper Frankfurt since 2008, where roles included Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) and the title role in Berlioz’ La damnation de Faust. He won the Metropolitan Opera’s 2008 Beverly Sills Artist Award, where he’s a regular guest. Recent highlights have included lead roles in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Rodolfo (La bohème), Giasone (Médée) and Verdi’s Don Carlo. Now you can hear him as a masterful Lieder singer.

Matthew Polenzani (Tenor) & Julius Drake (Piano)

Oper Frankfurt was the ideal springboard for Alder’s great international career. While a member of the Ensemble (2014-2019) this British soprano sang roles including Gilda (Rigoletto), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Atalanta (Xerxes) and Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare in Egitto). She looks back on those years, during which she felt like a member of a family, with gratitude. Now she performs all over the world at places including the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and Glyndebourne. She’s back in Frankfurt this season with the Swiss tenor Mauro Peter, who’s just as passionate about Lieder singing as she. He won the 2012 International Robert Schumann competition in Zwickau and gave a triumphant debut recital at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. He appears regularly in concert and at opera houses all over the world

Louise Alder (Soprano) Mauro Peter (Tenor) & Joseph Middleton (Piano)

A treat for Advent - three singers who enjoy close ties with the company have come up with a contemplative evening of operatic arias and Christmassy music. The young countertenor Iurii Iushkevich made his debut in Frankfurt last spring, as Nireno in Giulio Cesare in Egitto, and can be heard again this season as Unulfo in Rodelinda and Arsace in a new production of Partenope. Recent engagements have taken him to the Vienna State Opera, Carnegie Hall in New York and the Philharmonie in Berlin.

Clara Kim & Nombulelo Yende (Sopranos) & Lurii Lushkevich (Countertenor)

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