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Olaf Bär still lives in his hometown of Dresden where he was a principal member of the Semperoper for many years and where he continues to make regular guest appearances. As the winner of the inaugural Walther Grüner Lieder Competition, Olaf Bär launched an international career and is today considered to be one of the foremost lieder interpreters of his generation. Olaf Bär appears worldwide in recital and has made major tours of Australia, Israel, Japan, and the USA. He made his Covent Garden recital debut in 1992 and is one of the most frequent guests at London's esteemed Wigmore Hall and in other important song recital series in Europe and abroad. Equally at home in the concert hall and opera house, Bär's concert repertoire ranges from the baroque to the contemporary, including Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Britten's War Requiem, Brahms' Requiem and Haydn's Creation. He has appeared with many of the world's finest orchestras and conductors, including the LSO/Tilson Thomas, the COE/Solti, RCO/Harnoncourt, La Scala/Muti, the RSNO/Runnicles, the NYPO/Masur, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia/Tate and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Maazel. Olaf Bär has appeared at Covent Garden, La Scala, the Aix Festival, the Vienna State Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Salzburg and Vienna festivals and many other prestigious venues. Olaf Bär has been awarded the honour of Kammersänger at Dresden’s Semperoper, where he has sung countless times, and is now also teaching at the Dresden conservatory.

Olaf Bär | Kilian | Baritone