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Gerd Vogel studied in his hometown of Leipzig at the College of Music with KS Rudolf Riemer and was engaged in 1988 at the Halle Opera House. Since then, the baritone has appeared in more than 100 games and over 2000 performances. His broad repertoire includes opera, operetta, musicals, concert and song programs as well as chanson evenings and cabaret.
Among his most important games include u.a. Mozart's Don Giovanni and Leporello (Don Giovanni), Figaro and Count Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Papageno (The Magic Flute) and Publio (The Mildness of Titus), Rossini's Figaro (The Barber of Seville) and Dandini (Cinderella), Donizettis Malatesta (Don Pasquale) and Belcore (The Love Potion), Lortzing Czar (Tsar and Carpenter), Earl Eberbach (Der Wildschütz) and Count Liebenau (The Weaponsmith), Johann Strauss' Eisenstein (The Bat), Wagner's Alberich (The Ring of the Nibelung), Beckmesser (The Meistersinger of Nuremberg), Dutchman (The Flying Dutchman), Klingsor (Parsifal), Biterolf (Tannhäuser), Melot (Tristan and Isolde), Tchaikovsky Tomskij (Queen of Spades) and the title role in Eugene Onegin, Verdi's Marquis Posa (Don Carlos), Puccini's Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Schaunard (La Bohème) and Ping (Turandot), Richard Strauss' Faninal (The Rosenkavalier), Alban Bergs Beautiful (Lulu), note in Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream, and Orff's King (The Kluge).
In the musical world premiere Edgar Allan Poe by Eric Woolfson Gerd Vogel sang the role of Rufus Griswold and in Eric Svoboda's musical Dracula he designed the title role. He has performed in Salzburg, Leipzig, Dortmund, Kassel, Karlsruhe, Bremen, Kaiserslautern and Dessau. He was nominated for the title role in Rihm's Jakob Lenz in Halle by the magazine »Opernwelt« as Singer of the Year. In 2012, he made his debut at the Semperoper Dresden as a doctor in Henzes We reach the river, where he was also to experience the role of Zeta in The Merry Widow.
In the spring of 2013 he performed for the first time at the Staatstheater Nürnberg as Beckmesser in the Meistersingern of Nuremberg. He also sang this role at the Staatstheater Darmstadt in a staging by John Dew and at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. In Darmstadt, he also debuted in 2014 as Klingsor in Parsifal. At the Oper Halle he designed the role of Alberich (Das Rheingold, Siegfried) and the Gunther and Alberich (Götterdämmerung) in the Ring des Nibelungen. As Alberich he also guested at the Ring productions in Detmold and Dessau.
Also rarely performed works or world premieres such as Florentine hat by Nino Rota, Maxwell Davis Lighthouse, joke, satire, irony and deeper meaning, as well as Three puzzles by Detlev Glanert, Juana by Enric Palomar, Brave soldier Schweik by Robert Kurka, and Jacob Lenz von Wolfgang Rihm belong to his repertoire.
In recent seasons Gerd Vogel was in Halle u. a. as Fierket in the world premiere of the operatic oratorio Sky Disc - Disc del cel by Ramon Humet, as Caliph Schahryar in the first performance of the opera Schahrazade by Bernhard Sekles after more than 80 years, as Lord Ruthven in Heinrich Marschner's Der Vampyr, Tomskij in Pique Dame, Count Dominik and Count Lamoral in Arabella, Escamillo in Carmen, Fra Melitone in Verdi's power of fate, as father in Hänsel and Gretel and Athos in the German premiere of the musical The Three Musketeers by George Stiles.
In the season 2016/17 he was u. a. as Dutchman in Der Fliegende Holländer, as Asuz in the premiere Sacrifice, as Messner in Tosca, as well as Bluebeard in Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Bela Bartok. In the current season he sings u.a. the Don Pizarro in Fidelio and the title role in the musical thriller Sweeney Todd. In the season 2018/2019 he debuted with flying colors in Zemlinsky's one-act opera A Florentine Tragedy in the Game of Simone. He also plays the Nélusco in Meyerbeer's Grand opéra L'Africaine and the music teacher in Richard Strauss'Ariadne on Naxos.