Peter Seiffert
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Biography
The son of singer Helmut Sieffert, German tenor Peter Seiffert was born in Düsseldorf on January 4, 1954, and joined a choir in his youth, before studying opera singing. After making his debut at the Rhine Opera in 1978, he joined the Berlin Opera Company, where he performed from 1980 to 2019. He has taken on a wide variety of roles, from Mozart to Richard Strauss, not forgetting Wagner, whose Ring tetralogy, recorded by Daniel Barenboim, is his specialty, among other productions over four decades. In 2003, his production of Tannhäuser, again conducted by Borenboim, won a Grammy Award. It was in this role of the minnersänger, performed many times, that the operatic tenor bade farewell after more than three hundred performances in Berlin. Peter Seiffert has also collaborated with other companies, including the Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and the Bayreuth Festival, where he appeared regularly between 1996 and 2005. Married to Lucia Popp in 1986, then to Petra Maria Schnitzer in 1993, Peter Seiffert died after a long illness on April 14, 2025, at the age of 71.
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- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 3: \"Mein lieber Schwan...Leb wohl! (Lohengrin, Henry, Ortrud, Elsa, Chorus) featuring René Pape
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 3: \"Mir schwankt der Boden! Welche Nacht!\" (Elsa, Lohengrin, Henry, Chorus) featuring René Pape
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 3: \"In fernem Land, unnahbar euren Schritten\" (Lohengrin, König, Chorus) featuring Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 3: \"Macht Platz dem Helden von Brabant\" (Chorus) featuring René Pape
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 3: \"Heil! König Heinrich!\" (Chorus) featuring René Pape
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 3: \"Weh, nun ist aller Glück dahin!\" (Lohengrin, Elsa) featuring René Pape
- Das Lied von der Erde: I. Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (ten) featuring City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 3: \"Höchstes Vertrau'n hast du mir schon zu danken\" (Lohengrin) featuring René Pape
- Lohengrin, Act 1: Prelude featuring Richard Wagner
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 3: \"Atmest du nicht mit mir die süssen Düfte?\" (Lohengrin, Elsa) featuring René Pape
- Das Lied von der Erde: II. Der Einsame im Herbst (bar) featuring Thomas Hampson
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 2: \"Du wilde Seherin!\" (Frederick, Ortrud) featuring René Pape
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 2: \"Erhebe dich, Genossin meiner Schmach!\" (Frederick, Ortrud) featuring René Pape
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 2: Introduction featuring René Pape
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 1: \"Durch Gottes Sieg ist jetzt dein Leben mein\" (Lohengrin, Henry, Elsa, Frederick, Ortrud, Chorus) featuring René Pape
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 1: \"Nun höret mich und achtet wohl! (Herald, Lohengrin, Frederick, Henry, Elsa, Ortrud, Chorus) featuring René Pape
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 1: \"Nun hört! Euch, Volk und Edlen, mach ich kund\" (Lohengrin, Frederick, Henry, Chorus) featuring René Pape
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 1: \"Zum kampf für eine Magd zu stehn\" (Lohengrin, Elsa, Chorus) featuring René Pape
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 1: \"Nun sei bedankt, mein lieber Schwan\" (Lohengrin, Henry, Chorus) featuring René Pape
- Caro mio ben by Peter Seiffert
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 3: \"Fühl ich zu dir so süss mein Herz entbrennen\" (Elsa, Lohengrin) featuring René Pape
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 3: \"Das süsse Lied verhallt, wir sind allein\" (Lohengrin, Elsa) featuring René Pape
- Wagner: Lohengrin, Act 3: \"Treulich geführt ziehet dahin\" (Chorus) featuring Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Wagner: Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3 featuring René Pape
