Michael
Borth Baritone

The German baritone Michael Borth studied singing in Weimar with Siegried Gohritz and at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Roman Trekel. He was a member of the Center de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo at the Palau de les Arts Valencia and was subsequently invited to the Accademia Rossiniana, where he made his debut as Barone di Trombonok in ‹Il viaggio a Reims›. Recent highlights include appearances in Handel's ‹Lucio Cornelio Silla› on a tour of Japan and debuts in Muhly's ‹Marnie› and Weill's ‹Dreigroschenoper› at the Theater Freiburg. There he also sang Eugene Onegin and made his debut as Dr. Falke ‹Die Fledermaus›, Marcello ‹La bohème› and Golaud ‹Pelléas et Mélisande›. Michael Borth sang the title role in Mozart's ‹Don Giovanni›, Peter Vogel in Korngold's ‹Der Ring des Polykrates› and Sharpless in ‹Madama Butterfly›, made his successful role debut as Count Almaviva in Mozart's ‹Le nozze di Figaro› and interpreted Schaunard in ‹La bohème› in a new production by Barrie Kosky at the Komische Oper Berlin. He has worked with conductors such as Josep Pons, Roberto Abbado, Fabio Biondi, Emmanuel Villaume, Daniel Cohen and Jordan de Souza. At Theater Basel, he was the acclaimed Kovalyov in Herbert Fritsch's production of Shostakovich's ‹Die Nase›, sang Donner in Wagner's ‹Ring des Nibelungen› and will take on Clov in ‹Fin de Partie› in the 25/26 season.