German tenor Daniel Kirch studied at the Academy of Music of his native city of Cologne. His operatic career has so far seen performances as a member of the ensemble at Berlin Comic Opera and many successful guest performances at renowned opera houses such as the Staatsoper Berlin and Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, the Gran Teatro Liceu, Barcelona, and Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich. He has sung under Marek Janowski, Kent Nagano, Ulf Schirmer and Claudio Abbado. Recent rôle débuts include new productions of Fidelio (Florestan in Bergen, Norway) and Die Meistersinger (Walther von Stolzing at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe). Further successful interpretations include Erik in The Flying Dutchman in Warsaw and Parsifal at Opera Leipzig. As a concert singer he has been enthusiastically praised for his performances of Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise, collaborating with Michael Thalheimer, as well as for Schumann’s Faust-Szenen with the Warsaw Philharmonic and Antoni Wit.