Matthias Klink
Matthias Klink, Opernwelt magazine’s 2017 Singer of the Year, is a native of Stuttgart. He performs frequently at Staatsoper Stuttgart, with many major roles, among them Don José (Carmen), Herod (Salome), Max (Der Freischütz), Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), Policeman/Doctor/Archangel/Mark Andre’s wunderzaichen (world premiere), Faust (The Damnation of Faust), and the Captain (Wozzeck). Other recent credits include Alwa (Lulu, Hamburg, Munich) and the Earl of Kent (Lear, Salzburg Festival). Klink debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 2009 (Tamino, The Magic Flute) and has also performed in the major opera houses of Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Milan, Amsterdam, and Barcelona. He sang Alwa (Lulu) with Kirill Petrenko at Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Der Kavalier (Cardillac) with Franz Welser-Möst in Vienna and Alwa in Hamburg. For his performance of Gustav von Aschenbach in Britten’s Death in Venive (in Stuttgart) he was given the 2017 »Singer of the Year« from Opernwelt-magazine and received 2018 The German theater-award DER FAUST.
Current projects are Loge and Mime (Das Rheingold, Siegfried) and Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus) in Stuttgart and Zurich, Eisenstein in Hamburg and Tichon (Katja Kabanova) in Duisburg, Jim Mahoney (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) in Bonn und Stuttgart and Die Winterreise by Schubert/Zender in Stuttgart.
With his wife Natalie Karl, he recorded the Operette-programm Die ganze Welt ist himmelblau on CD and performed with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, WDR Funkhausorchester and Württembergischen Kammerorchester Heilbronn.
He has appeared in concert at Paris’ Salle Pleyel, the Kölner Philharmonie, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Salzburg Easter Festival, and Vienna’s Musikverein. On DVD the tenor has recorded Belmonte (The Abduction from the Seraglio, performances with both Stuttgart State Opera and Les Musiciens du Louvre), Don Polidoro (La finta semplice, Salzburg Festival), and Narraboth (Salome, La Scala). He can be heard on CD with the Munich Radio Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, SWR Vokalensemble, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra.
As of January 2026