{{short description|German bass-baritone}}
'''Detlef Roth''' (born 1969) is a German operatic bass-baritone.
== Life and career == Born in Freudenstadt, Roth studied singing with Georg Jelden at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. During his studies he won the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin in 1990, the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna in 1992 and the International Singing Competition for Wagner Voices in Strasbourg in 1994.<ref>[http://www.rwv-karlsruhe.de/gesangswettbewerb.htm Previous prizewinners] on the website of the Richard Wagner Association Karlsruhe</ref><ref>[https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Roth-Detlef.htm DetlerRothe] on Bach Cantatas</ref>
His opera repertoire includes works by Richard Wagner such as Wolfram von Eschenbach in ''Tannhäuser'', Der Heerufer des Königs in ''Lohengrin'', Donner in ''Das Rheingold'', Amfortas in ''Parsifal'' and Gunther in ''Götterdämmerung''. Other vocal parts are Papageno in ''Die Zauberflöte'' by Mozart, Count Almaviva in ''Le Nozze di Figaro'' by Mozart and roles in ''Hans Heiling'' by Heinrich Marschner, ''Die Bassariden'' by Hans Werner Henze and ''Königskinder'' by Engelbert Humperdinck.<ref>[https://www.operabase.com/artists/detlef-roth-4157/de Detelf Roth on Opera base]</ref>
His repertoire as a concert singer includes ''Elias'' by Felix Mendelssohn , ''A German Requiem'' by Johannes Brahms, among others, ''Carmina Burana'' by Carl Orff, Passions, masses and oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach and Lieder by Franz Schubert.<ref>[http://auffuehrungsdatenbank.bayreuther-festspiele.de/fsdb/personen/14646/index.htm Detlef Roth] on the website of the Bayreuth Festival</ref>
Roth sang at the Milanese la Scala, the Royal Opera House in London, the Lincoln Center in New York and the Paris Opera and performed at the Bayreuth Festival, the Salzburg Festival and the Salzburg Easter Festival. Well-known orchestras with which he has sung include the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. With the French soprano Sandrine Piau and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France he performed Mozart's love arias at the Cité de la musique in Paris.<ref>[http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/045411-000/sandrine-piau-und-detlef-roth-singen-mozart Information] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140511232638/http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/045411-000/sandrine-piau-und-detlef-roth-singen-mozart |date=2014-05-11 }} on Arte</ref>
== Collaboration on CD releases == * Symphonie Nr. 9 in D minor op. 125 by Ludwig van Beethoven, BMG Ariola, Hamburg 1999 (Bass) * ''Doktor Faust'' by Ferruccio Busoni, East West Records, Hamburg 1999 * Konzert für Klavier und Orchester a-Moll op. 7 by Clara Schumann, Frankfurter Museums-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt 2001 (bass) * ''A German Requiem'' by Johannes Brahms, Cappella, Wiesbaden 2001 * ''Königskinder'' by Engelbert Humperdinck, Universal Music Entertainment, Berlin 2006 * Sinfonien 1–9 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 2007 (bass) * ''Die erste Walpurgisnacht'' by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Farao, Munich 2010 * Deutsche Volkslieder, part 1: ''Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär''. Sony Music Entertainment, Munich 2010 * ''St John Passion'' by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 245), Förderkreis Thomanerchor, Leipzig 2011 (bass) * ''Regina'' by Albert Lortzing, Cpo, Georgsmarienhütte 2013
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{DNB portal|135121523|T}} * {{discogs artist}} * {{official|http://www.detlefroth.com/}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Roth, Detlef}} Category:German operatic baritones Category:German operatic basses Category:1969 births Category:living people Category:People from Freudenstadt