Gideon Poppe thrills audiences with his beautiful lyrical tenor voice and his lively and authentic acting. During the 2013/14 to 2023/24 seasons, he was a member of the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, performing roles such as Bardolfo ("Falstaff"), Lysander ("A Midsummer Night's Dream"), Monostatos ("The Magic Flute"), Cavaliere Belfiore (Il viaggio a Reims), Remendado (Carmen), Pang (Turandot), Goro ("Madama Butterfly"), Harry ("La fanciulla del West"), Don Curzio ("Le nozze di Figaro"), Conte di Lerma ("Don Carlo"), Lord Cecil ("Roberto Devereux"), The Young Man ("Das Wunder der Heliane"), Janek ("Die Sache Makropoulus"), Sailor and Priest ("Vasco da Gama"), Faucheur ("Dinorah"), Helmsman ("Der fliegende Holländer"), Kunz Vogelgesang ("Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"), Heinrich der Schreiber ("Tannhäuser"), Jaquino ("Fidelio") and many others. Since then, he has been associated with the Deutsche Oper as a guest performer, and in the 2025/26 season he will once again sing Heinrich der Schreiber and make his role debut as Gabriel Eisenstein ("Die Fledermaus").
He made his festival debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2025 as Augustin Moser in the new production of Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", among other roles. After his successful house debut at the Bavarian State Opera in March 2024 and at the Munich Opera Festival in Tobias Kratzer's new production of Mieczysław Weinberg's "The Passenger", Gideon Poppe was engaged in the same season as Ivan in Dmitri Shostakovich's "The Nose". In the 2024/25 season, he returned to Munich in "The Passenger" and sang Kunz Vogelgesang in "Die Meistersinger" and Daniéli in Verdi's "Les Vêpres siciliennes" at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Further guest performances took Gideon Poppe to the Hamburg State Opera, the Frankfurt Opera, the Semperoper Dresden, the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Edinburgh International Festival, the Royal Opera House Muscat, the Vienna Volksoper, the Leipzig Opera, the Cologne Opera, the Mannheim National Theatre, the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and others.
In the 2007/08 season, he was a member of the opera studio, then from 2009/10 to 2010/11 he was a member of the ensemble at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. In February 2011, he made his debut at the Karlsruhe Handel Festival as Emilio in "Partenope" under the baton of Michael Hofstetter. During the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons, the tenor was a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater Kassel.
Gideon Poppe was born in Hamburg and initially began studying sports science at the German Sport University in Cologne before deciding to pursue a career as a singer. He studied singing at the University of Music in Lübeck and at the University of Music in Karlsruhe.
In the winter semester of 2022/23, he accepted a position at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, where he heads a singing class as a professor.