Oper Frankfurt.
* born in Germany.
In 2018, Sebastian Geyer made his debut at Vienna’s Volksoper. At Oper Frankfurt he will sing his first Faninal in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier in May 2020, after having made his debuts as Count in Strauss’ Capriccio and Musiklehrer in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos during the 2018/2019 season. At the Edinburgh International Festival, the baritone made his debut singing Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas in 2013.
In 2010, Sebastian Geyer made his company debut at Oper Frankfurt singing Conte Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, followed by Mozart’s Guglielmo in Così fan tutte and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte as well as Dr. Falke in Strauß’ Die Fledermaus and the title roles of Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Telemann’s Orpheus. During the 2019/2020 season, he will also sing Eurymaque in Fauré’s Pénélope and Don Pomponio in Rossini’s La gazetta.
Sebastian Geyer’s concert repertoire includes Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation and Mendelssohn’s Elijah as well as Bach’s oratorios and cantatas. Also a dedicated lied singer, Sebastian Geyer sings Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, Schubert’s lied cycles as well as contemporary lieder by Wolfgang Rihm. In 2014, he made his debut at Opera de Lausanne singing Schubert’s Winterreise.
Sebastian Geyer worked with the early music ensemble La Stagione Frankfurt, as well as with Munich Symphony, hr-Symphony Orchestra and the WDR Rundfunkorchester in Cologne. He has collaborated with conductors including Christian Arming, Ivor Bolton, Constantinos Carydis, Titus Engel, Andrea Marcon, Cornelius Meister, Ingo Metzmacher, Erik Nielsen, Steven Sloane, Eugene Tzigane, Sebastian Weigle, Andriy Yurkevych and Lothar Zagrosek.
