Vita
Bass singer Stephan Klemm was born in the German region of Sachsen-Anhalt. He started a degree in German studies and the arts at Martin-Luther-University in Halle before moving to the „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” University of Music in Leipzig. Here he studied singing with Helga Forner and later worked with Brigitte Fassbaender.
Important Roles
He started his work on stage in 1991. Since then Stephan Klemm has contributed to manifold productions with, for example, Christine Mielitz, Brigitte Fassbaender and Rosemund Gilmore. He has appeared at German opera houses such as the Theater Dessau, Theater Dortmund, Nationaltheater Weimar, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Staatsoper Hannover, Staatstheater Nuremberg, the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich the Opera in Leipzig and Berlin State Opera. Internationally he has performed as Daland in The Flying Dutchman at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, in Innsbruck as Kezal in The Bartered Bride and in Warsaw as Ramphis in Aida.
In Wagner’s operas he sings Fasolt/Fafner in Rheingold, Hunding in the Valkyre, Fafner in Siegfried, Hagen in Götterdämmerung, King Heinrich in Lohengrin, Landgraf Hermann in Tannhäuser, King Marke in Tristan and Isolde, and Daland in The Flying Dutchman.
Further development
Concert work with, among others, the Dortmund Philharmonic, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Hamburg Symphonic Orchestra, or the Berlin Philharmonic and under conductors such as Stefan Sanderling, Antony Hermus, Jac van Steen, Marko Letonja, Christof Prick, Howard Arman, Antoni Wit, Jeffrey Tate, Ulf Schirmer and John Sorgråds has established his presence in Germany and abroad.
Teaching activity
Since the summer semester of 2017, he has been teaching at the Karlsruhe University of Music, initially as a professorial assistant. Since 2021, he has held a substitute professorship.
In March 2025, Stephan Klemm will conduct a masterclass in Dongguan, China.
Music
Der neue Merker
“Von den Solisten überzeugt zuerst Stephan Klemm, der nicht nur die stimmlichen Voraussetzungen für einen wirklich schwarzen Hagen mitbringt, sondern auch mit Musikalität und vorbildlicher Artikulation fesselt. Das ist ein erster Aktivposten für diesen neuen ‘Ring’.”.
