Celebrated around the globe for his opera and concert performances, German baritone Matthias Goerne is a frequent guest with leading orchestras and renowned festivals and concert halls.  Among his musical partners are conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gustavo Dudamel, among others. Matthias Goerne has appeared on the world’s principal opera stages, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Teatro Real in Madrid, Opéra National de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, and the Wiener Staatsoper. His carefully chosen roles range from Amfortas, Marke, Wolfram, Wotan, Orest, and Jochanaan to the title roles in Béla Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and Alban Berg’s Wozzeck.

Artist in residence with the Shanghai Symphony in the 2024-25 season, his schedule includes tours in Asia with Maria João Pires and in Australia with Daniil Trifonov. He will perform Bluebeard with Mikko Franck and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and will also appear at the Musikverein in Vienna for the Christmas concert and perform John Adams' The Wound Dresser with Marin Alsop. At the 2025 Mahler Festival, he will be a guest at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi.

Goerne’s artistry has been documented on numerous recordings, many of which have received rave reviews and prestigious awards, including five Grammy nominations, an ICMA award, a Gramophone Award, the BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award 2017, Diapason d’or Arte, and the ECHO Klassik 2017 in the category “Singer of the Year”.

Born in Weimar, he studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.