Vita
Magnus Dietrich has quickly established himself as one of the most exciting tenors of his generation. His repertoire ranges from Mozart’s Tamino and Belmonte to Wagner’s Steuermann (The Flying Dutchman) and Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser), as well as Strauss’s Leukippos, a role with which he attracted considerable attention in the new production of Daphne (Guggeis/Castellucci) at the Berlin State Opera and in Frankfurt. With his successful debut as Jacquino in Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, he also achieved international recognition.
In the 2025/26 season, Magnus Dietrich will appear as a permanent ensemble member of Oper Frankfurt, where he will make his role debut as Ferrando in a new production of Così fan tutte. He will also be featured in the company’s new production of Turandot and the double bill Der Zar lässt sich fotografieren/Die Kluge. Rolando Villazón has engaged the young tenor as Tamino in a new production of Die Zauberflöte for the Mozart Week in Salzburg. Further concert engagements will take him to the Munich Symphony Orchestra with Mozart’s Requiem and to the Frankfurt Museum Concerts with Haydn’s The Seasons under Thomas Guggeis.
Among the highlights of recent seasons, alongside his Metropolitan Opera debut, are performances as Tamino at the Berlin State Opera and Semperoper Dresden, as Alfred (Die Fledermaus) under Marc Minkowski at the Musikfest Bremen, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, and in Valencia, as well as Schubert’s Winterreise in Christian Spuck’s choreographed staging of the cycle. On the concert stage, he has appeared in the St John Passion with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the St Matthew Passion and Elijah with the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra, and Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang under Thomas Guggeis in Frankfurt. He has sung Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic, and Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Staatskapelle Berlin under Marc Minkowski in Berlin and at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. Magnus Dietrich also remains active as a recitalist, most recently with Wolf’s Italian Songbook at Oper Frankfurt.
Since the 2023/24 season, Magnus Dietrich has been a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt, where he has appeared as Count Hohenzollern in a new production of Henze’s The Prince of Homburg, as Emilio in Handel’s Partenope, as Leander in Nielsen’s Maskarade, and in Der Rosenkavalier.
He has been a guest at renowned festivals including the International Hugo Wolf Academy, the Bachfest Leipzig, Kissinger Sommer, Festival de Santes, and the Bach Academy France. Concert tours with the soloist ensemble Vox Luminis have taken him to France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. He also enjoys a close collaboration with conductor Johanna Soller, including as a member of the “capella sollertia” in the concert series Cantate um 1715.
The Munich-born tenor studied with KS Prof. Andreas Schmidt at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich and privately with Hartmut Elbert. He was a member of the Opera Studio of the Berlin State Opera. Masterclasses with Piotr Beczała, Andrew Watts, Neil Shicoff, Bo Skovhus, and Hedwig Fassbender further enriched his training. Magnus Dietrich is a prizewinner of the German National Singing Competition and a scholarship holder of the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation, as well as recipient of the 2022 Brixen Classics Young Artists Award.
In May 2022, the label MDG released a CD of Brahms duets with pianist Doriana Tchakarova, Felicitas Erb, and Judith Erb.
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