DIETRICH HENSCHEL
baritone
Latest News
Success continues in Sevilla
Henschel achieved outstanding success in Philip Glass’s Les Enfants Terribles at the Festival de Ópera de Sevilla. On this occasion, he also gave an interview to El Correo de Andalucía, offering insights into his personal connection with Sevilla and its operatic tradition. Read the full interview here.
The 2025/26 season opens with resounding success!
Ä€RT HOUSE 17’s music theatre production Mona Lisa at Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht — with Dietrich Henschel in the double role of Leonardo da Vinci and the thief — brought the sensational 1911 art heist to life. All 14 performances sold out and the production received glowing reviews. Read the review here.​
On May 3, 2025, Henschel returned to the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino to present Britten's War Requiem, conducted by Diego Ceretta, featuring tenor Ian Bostridge and soprano Elizaveta Shuvalova.
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After the phenomenal success of Henschel's recording of Busoni's opera Doktor Faust at the beginning of his career, for which he won the GRAMMY Award in 2000, Henschel demonstrated his experience of the role of "Doktor Faust" again in the live recording at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.​
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Schoenberg's Moses und Aron at Theatre Bonn with Henschel as "Moses" was awarded Best Performance of the Year (Aufführungen des Jahres 2024) by OPERNWELT.
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Upcoming Events
The 2025/26 season opens—by now almost a tradition—with a series of music theatre productions at the Festival Oude Muziek in Utrecht. Newly appointed as the festival’s opera ensemble in residence, the acclaimed Graz-based troupe Ä€RT HOUSE 17 will present Mona Lisa, with Dietrich Henschel in a remarkable double role: Leonardo da Vinci and the thief of his most famous painting, which also lends the work its title.
Further operatic engagements lead the baritone to the newly founded Festival de Ópera de Sevilla (Les Enfants Terribles by Philip Glass), to Theater Bonn (Die Ameise by Peter Ronnefeld), and to the Opera of Basel. There, in collaboration with celebrated stage director Thom Luz, he will embark on a new theatrical experiment inspired by Don Quichotte—weaving together music from various settings of the great Spanish epic into a singular, immersive stage experience.