Florian Simson

In addition to studying German and English at university, the tenor Florian Simson also trained as a singer with Prof. Michaela Kramer, and followed this with vocal studies at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf with Prof. Ingeborg Reichelt. He has been a member of the ensembles at theatres in Trier, Wuppertal and Gelsenkirchen and at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, before joining the ensemble at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2009. In the course of his career, Florian Simson has played all the major acting tenor roles as well as a number of significant character tenor roles. For example, at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein he has appeared as Bob Boles (Britten ‘Peter Grimes’), the Witch (Humperdinck ‘Hänsel und Gretel’), the Dancing Master (Strauss ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’), Mime (Wagner ‘Das Rheingold’), Goro (Puccini ‘Madama Butterfly’) Monostatos and Basilio (Mozart ‘Zauberflöte’ and ‘Le nozze di Figaro’), Peter/Chansonnier (Blacher ‘Romeo und Julia’) as well as in numerous repertoire and world premiere productions.