Biography

The charismatic German tenor made his debut in Cologne in 2009 as Stolzing/DIE
MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG, followed by productions of the same work at the
Komische Oper Berlin and at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2011. The Nederlandse
Opera Amsterdam invited him to sing Erik/DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER in 2010.
Shortly afterwards he sang Froh/DAS RHEINGOLD at La Scala Milan under Daniel
Barenboim, followed by the same production at the Staatsoper Berlin. Roles such as
Erik, Parsifal, Lohengrin, Max, Peter Grimes, Tambourmajor and Bacchus have taken
Marco Jentzsch to the State Operas of Hanover and Hamburg, the Cologne Opera, the
Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv (under the direction of Zubin Mehta), Zurich and Basel,
Wiesbaden, the Leipzig Opera and the Semperoper Dresden. In 2019/20 he made his
debut as Tannhäuser at the Klagenfurt Theatre. The 21/22 and 22/23 seasons include
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE in Wiesbaden and at the Mākslas Festivāl Cēsis in Latvia. 23/24
he appeared as PARSIFAL at the Hanover State Theatre, followed by Florestan/FIDELIO
at the Berlin State Opera, Brahms' RINALDO in Warsaw, Siegmund/WALKÜRE in
Wiesbaden and at the Erl Festival and, 24/25, in a new production of TANNHÄUSER at
the Frankfurt Opera, as Erik/DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER in Zurich and also as
Tannhäuser at the Wagner Festival in Budapest. 25/26 he will sing concerts with the
9th Beethoven with the Duisburg Philharmonic under Stefan Blunier,
Herodes/SALOME in Riga, Tristan in a revival of TRISTAN UND ISOLDE in Frankfurt as
well as, 26/27, LOHENGRIN in Linz, a revival of TANNHÄUSER and Siegmund/DIE
WALKÜRE, both at the Frankfurt Opera.