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The German bass, Michael Zehe, played the clarinet as a child and sang in vocal ensembles and choirs. From 2008 he studied with Klaus Häger at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock, and from 2010 with a Germany scholarship with Siegfried Lorenz at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where he obtained his Master's degree in 2014. He attended master-classes with Professor Gerd Uecker, Professor Lars Woldt and Eric Schneider. During his studies he appeared as Dottore Bombasto in Ferruccio Busoni's Arlecchino and as Monsieur Juste / Arthur de St. Barbe in Bohuslav Martinů's opera The Three Wishes. His first engagements took him to the Seefestspielen Mörbisch and the Mittelsächsische Theater Freiberg.
From 2014 to 2018, Michael Zehe was a member of the ensemble at the Landestheaters Detmold, where he played, among others, Zebul in George Frideric Handel's Jephta, Alfonso in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, Sarastro in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore, Hans Schwarz & Night Watchman in Wagner's Meistersingers, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Lodovico in Otello, Colline in La Bohéme, Orest in Strauss' Elektra, Dr. Reischmann in Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers and the hotel manager in Thomas Adés' Powder her Face". Guest performances have taken him to the Landesbühnen Sachsen as Tschick in Ludger Vollmer's opera of the same name based on Wolfgang Herrndorf's bestseller and to the Theater Münster as the cook in Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, both in a production by Sebastian Ritschel.
Since the 2018-2019 season, Michael Zehe is an ensemble member at Oper Halle, where he sang, among other roles, the bass solo in Verdi's Messa da Requiem, the Grand Inquisitor in Meyerbeer's Afrikanerin, Colas in W.A. Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne, Leporello in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, Count Horn in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera , d'Obigny and Grenvil in La Traviata and at the Händel-Festspielen Aristobolo in Berenice, Tolomeo in Peter Konwitschny's Julius Caesar in Egypt, as well as Jesus in Walter Sutcliffe's production of G.F. Handel's Brockes Passion, HWV 48. |
