Stefan Vinke

German Heldentenor Stefan Vinke graduated as a church musician at the Cologne College of Music before beginning his professional singing career in Karlsruhe and Krefeld / Mönchengladbach. In 1999 he was awarded the position of “Young Heroic Tenor” at the Nationaltheater Mannheim where in 2000 he was voted “Male Newcomer of the Year” by Opernwelt magazine.

Globally renowned as an interpreter of Wagner’s great tenor roles, he has sung the title roles of Tristan, Siegfried, Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Lohengrin and Rienzi, also Siegmund in Die Walküre, Siegfried in Götterdämmerung, Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer, and Walther von Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Stefan Vinke was Tristan in two productions, Siegfried (Siegfried and Götterdämmerung) and Walther von Stolzing at the Bayreuth Festival.

His numerous Ring cycle appearances include the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden with Sir Antonio Pappano, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayreuth festival and Bayerische Staatsoper under Kiril Petrenko, Barcelona, Venice, Köln, Bukarest, Budapest, Melbourne.

He has also sung the title role of Idomeneo, Florestan in Fidelio, Bacchus in Ariadne, Menelas in Die Ägytische Helena, Paul in Die tote Stadt, and Jim Mahony in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, in the theatres of Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich, Paris, Lisbon, Madrid, Sydney, Beijing, Geneva, Chicago, Seattle, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and at the Salzburg Festival.