Georg Zeppenfeld, a renowned bass from Attendorn in Westphalia (Germany), began his musical journey with a teaching degree in Music and German Studies. At the same time, he perfected his talent in concert and opera singing at the prestigious music academies in Detmold and Cologne, where he completed his training under the guidance of Hans Sotin. After initial engagements in Münster and Bonn, he joined the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden in 2001, which remains his artistic home to this day.
With his extraordinary voice, Zeppenfeld has conquered the stages of the most important opera houses in Europe and the USA and has performed at the most renowned concert venues worldwide. His repertoire includes important roles in the Italian and German repertoire such as Rocco (Fidelio), Kaspar (Der Freischütz), King Charles (Fierrabras), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Zaccaria (Nabucco), Banco (Macbeth), Sparafucile (Rigoletto), King Philipp II (Don Carlo), Daland (Daland) and the famous King of the Italian-speaking world. (Don Carlo), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Landgrave Hermann (Tannhäuser), King Heinrich (Lohengrin), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Hunding (Die Walküre), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Veit Pogner and Hans Sachs (Die Meistersinger), Baculus (Der Wildschütz), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Wassermann (Rusalka), Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande), Pimen (Boris Godunov), Peneios (Daphne) and La Roche (Capriccio). His interpretation of Sarastro in Mozart's The Magic Flute, which he performed under the baton of Claudio Abbado in Baden-Baden and at many other major opera houses, is particularly outstanding.
Other highlights of the upcoming season include performances at the Anima Mundi Festival in Pisa with Dvořák's Stabat Mater conducted by Trevor Pinnock, recitals with Gerold Huber at the piano at the Schubertiade in Hohenems, Budapest and at the Frankfurt Opera as well as engagements at the Bayreuth Festival in Parsifal and Meistersinger.
Zeppenfeld has worked with renowned conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Hengelbrock, Marek Janowski, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Andris Nelsons, Marc Minkowski, Antonio Pappano, Kirill Petrenko, Christian Thielemann and Franz Welser-Möst. His impressive artistic output has been recorded on numerous CDs, DVDs and radio and television productions. For his extraordinary achievements, Zeppenfeld was appointed ‘Kammersänger der Sächsischen Staatsoper Dresden’ in 2015 and received the Dresden Semperoper Foundation Award in 2018. In 2022, he was awarded the Austrian Music Theatre Prize for his outstanding performance in Parsifal at the Vienna State Opera.