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Dietrich Henschel – Baritone
His international 
career started with the title roles of two opera productions: Henze’s “Prinz von Homburg” at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Busoni’s “Dr. Faust” at the Opéra National de Lyon. These appearances were followed immediately by engagements at the two opera houses in Paris: Gluck’s “Alceste” with Gardiner and Wilson at the Chatelet, as well as “Dr. Faust” with Nagano and “Die schweigsame Frau” with Dohnanyi; at La Bastille he appeared as Pelleas in Bob Wilson’s legendary production of Debussy’s “Pelleas et Melisande”, and as Count in Robert Carsen’s production of Strauss’s “Capriccio”.
He now appears regularly at the opera houses in Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, Madrid, Geneva, Zurich and Paris, as well as at international festivals like Salzburg, Aix-en-Provence and Florence. He is working with conductors such as Harnoncourt, Gardiner, Herreweghe, Jacobs, Eschenbach, Rilling,Christie, Petrenko, Nagano, Mehta, Dohnanyi, Albrecht, Rattle and Thielemann.
Dietrich Henschel is specially devoted to concert and lied and gives recitals all over Europe and the US, accompanied by Irwin Gage, Fritz Schwinghammer, Helmut Deutsch and Shinya Okahara.
Recently, he has been very successful as conductor. 
He gave his debut with the Paris Ensemble Diabolicus at the Chatelet with Beethoven’s Symphony No.1 and Mahler’s “Lied”, followed by concerts with the Orchestre de L’opéra de Rouen, and the Orchestra of the Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels.His first CD as conductor, featuring works by Wagner and Schönberg/Strauß, has been released by Ambroisie/Naive recently.
His wide discography includes among many others the following recordings: Schubert’s “Winterreise” (Gage), Wolf’s “Mörike-Lieder” (Schwinghammer), Mahler’s “Kindertoten-, Rückert- and Wunderhornlieder” (Nagano), lieder by Korngold and Beethoven (Deutsch/Schäfer), lieder with orchestra by Hugo Wolf (Nagano), lieder by Vaughan-Williams, Mahler and Duparc (Schwinghammer), Schönberg’s “Jakobsleiter” (Nagano), Schubert’s “Schwanengesang (Schwinghammer), Haydn’s “Creation” and the complete recording of Busoni’s “Dr. Faust”, which was awarded a Grammy in 2000.
Photos: Thibault Stipal / Naïve