From the 2024/25 season, Friedrich Hamel is a member of the ensemble of Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where his repertoire includes Erster Handwerksbursche in Berg’s Wozzeck, Nourabad in Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles, Mozart’s Leporello in Don Giovanni and Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Puccini’s Colline in La bohème as well as Angelotti in Tosca, Strauss’ Farfallo in Die schweigsame Frau and Nazarener in Salome, Verdi’s Frate in Don Carlo, Pistola in Falstaff, and Pietro in Simon Boccanegra, and Wagner’s Ein Nachtwächter in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg as well as Reinmar von Zweter in Tannhäuser.
In 2022, the German bass performed in Brandenburger Theater‘s new production of Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, followed by his debut as Reinmar von Zweter in Wagner’s Tannhäuser at Mecklenburgische Staatstheater in Schwerin. In opera productions at the Hanover’s University of Music, Drama and Media, he has performed Truffaldin in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos and made his acclaimed debut in the title role of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in 2022. At Hamburg University of Music, Friedrich Hamel has sung Death in Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis and Death in Holst’s Sāvitri. 2026 saw Friedrich Hamel’s debut at Theater Lübeck, singing Erster Handwerksbursche in Berg’s Wozzeck.
As a concert soloist, Friedrich Hamel has sung Bach’s cantatas and is often casted in his St John Passion as well as St Matthew Passion. In addition, the German bass sings almost all representative repertoire in this field – from early to modern music, including Haydn’s The Creation, Mozart’s Requiem. In 2023, he was a chorus soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah under the baton of Kirill Petrenko, accompanied by Berliner Philharmoniker.
A dedicated recitalist, Friedrich Hamel has sung selected lieder, as well as the cycles of Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, Martin’s Six Monologues from Jedermann, Schubert’s Winterreise and Schumann’s Dichterliebe. Friedrich Hamel has sung under the baton of conductors including Marco Armiliato, Bertrand de Billy, Pierre Dumoussaud, John Fiore, Thomas Guggeis, Philippe Jordan, Gàbor Káli, Joana Mallwitz, Marc Minkowski, Maxime Pascal, Kiril Petrenko, Kristiina Poska, Simon Rattle, Ivan Repušić, François-Xavier Roth, Daniele Rustioni, Giedrė Šlekytė, Christian Thielemann, Stefan Vladar, Sebastian Weigle, and Simone Young – accompanied by orchestras including Berliner Philharmoniker, Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle, Philharmonisches Orchester der Hansestadt Lübeck, Staatskapelle Berlin.
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Mendelssohn: Elias
Chorus Solo
Live recording 2023
