Biography
The Australian-born bass-baritone Derek Welton has established himself as a respected and versatile artist both on the concert platform and the opera stage, with a repertoire ranging from Bach and Handel to the present day. He is a regular guest at companies such as the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Salzburg Festival, Vienna State Opera, Bayreuth Festival, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera, Paris Opera, Dutch National Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago, in roles such as Wotan (Das Rheingold), Wanderer (Siegfried), Amfortas and Klingsor (Parsifal), König Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Orest (Elektra), Voland (Der Meister und Margarita), Bluebeard (Bluebeard’s Castle), Pizarro (Fidelio), Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen), Prus (The Makropu
Performance credits
Upcoming performances Today Onwards
Past performances 2003 — Yesterday
Sibelius Strawinsky, SibeliusStravinsky
Munich PhilharmonicCréon (Creon) + 1 roles
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Featured past performances
Sibelius Strawinsky, SibeliusStravinsky
Munich PhilharmonicCréon (Creon) + 1 roles
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Upcoming performances
28Wagner: Die Walküre, Wagner, Richard
Internationales Musikfest HamburgWotan
View cast and crewDie Walküre (The Valkyrie), Wagner, Richard
Deutsche Oper BerlinWotan
View cast and crewParsifal, Wagner, Richard
Bayreuther FestspieleAmfortas
View cast and crewSymphony No. 8 in E-flat Major, ("Symphony of a Thousand") (Symphony 8), Mahler
West Australian Symphony OrchestraSoloist
View cast and crewFidelio, Beethoven
Washington National Opera (The Kennedy Center)Don Pizarro (Don Pizzaro)
View cast and crewHaydn and Strauss: Nelson Mass and A Hero’s Life, MoussaStraussHaydn
BBC Symphony OrchestraBass
View program, cast and crewTristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), Wagner, Richard
Deutsche Oper BerlinKönig Marke (King Mark)
View cast and crewDer fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), Wagner, Richard
Deutsche Oper BerlinDer Holländer (The Dutchman)
View cast and crewRichard Wagner / Siegfried, Wagner, Richard
Cité de la Musique/Philharmonie de ParisDer Wanderer (The Wanderer)
View cast and crewMahler’s Eighth, Mahler
London Philharmonic OrchestraPater Ecstaticus (Baritone)
View cast and crewWiener Symphoniker / Zemlinsky / Bruckner, Bruckner
MusikvereinBass
View cast and crewTue19:30
Vienna, Austria
Biography
The Australian-born bass-baritone Derek Welton has established himself as a respected and versatile artist both on the concert platform and the opera stage, with a repertoire ranging from Bach and Handel to the present day. He is a regular guest at companies such as the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Salzburg Festival, Vienna State Opera, Bayreuth Festival, Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera, Paris Opera, Dutch National Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago, in roles such as Wotan (Das Rheingold), Wanderer (Siegfried), Amfortas and Klingsor (Parsifal), König Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Orest (Elektra), Voland (Der Meister und Margarita), Bluebeard (Bluebeard’s Castle), Pizarro (Fidelio), Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen), Prus (The Makropu
