| 1969 | born in Munich |
| 1989–1994 | Study at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich |
| 1993/94 | Caramello / Eine Nacht in Venedig in Regensburg |
| May 1994 | Tamino in a concert performance of Mozart’s Zauberflöte in Munich (Prinzregententheater) |
| 1994–1996 | First engagement: Staatstheater Saarbrücken |
| April 1995 | Bach’s Matthäus-Passion in Frankfurt (Alte Oper) |
| 1996 | World premiere of Bibalo’s Die Glasmenagerie in Trier |
| 1997 | Die Zauberflöte in Würzburg; Romberg’s The Student Prince at the Schlossfestspiele in Heidelberg; Szymanowski’s Krol Roger in Stuttgart |
| 1998 | Così fan tutte in Milan (Piccolo Teatro di Milano); Jaquino / Fidelio and Almaviva / Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Stuttgart |
| 1999 | La clemenza di Tito in Klagenfurt; debut at the Salzburg Festival with Busoni’s Doktor Faust |
| 2000 | Così fan tutte in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Wiesbaden; Alfredo / La Traviata in Stuttgart and Florestan in Paër’s Leonora in Wintherthur |
| 2001 | Wilhelm Meister / Mignon in Toulouse; Cassio / Otello at the Lyric Opera in Chicago (USA debut) |
| 2002 | Die Zauberflöte and Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria und Paisiello’s Nina in Zürich; Berlioz’ La damnation de Faust in Brüssel (La Monnaie); concerts in Spoleto und Edinburgh; Florestan / Fidelio (concert performances at the Rheingau Musik Festival and the Beethovenfest in Bonn und in Stuttgart); Flamand / Capriccio in Turin |
| 2003 | La Traviata in Chicago; concerts in Tokio; La damnation de Faust in Genf; Entführung and Clemenza at the Salzburg festival; Zauberflöte in Berlin (Komische Oper) |
| 2004 | Fidelio und Faust in Zürich; Otello (Cassio) in Paris (Bastille); Freischütz und Capriccio at the Edinburgh Festival; debut at the Royal Opera House in London with Puccini’s La rondine |
| 2005 | Verdi’s Falstaff and Rigoletto, Mozart’s Clemenza and Così, Schubert’s Fierrabras in Zürich; Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in Cleveland; Humperdinck’s Königskinder in Montpellier |
| 2006 | Debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Alfredo / La Traviata); Mahler’s Lied von der Erde at the Philharmonie in Berlin; Fierrabras in Paris (Châtelet); Parsifal in Zürich; Die verkaufte Braut in Frankfurt; Zauberflöte in Wien (Staatsoper); concert performance of Wagner’s Meistersinger at the Edinburgh Festival; Zauberflöte at the Met; Don José / Carmen at the ROH |
| 2007 | La Traviata in Zürich, Paris (Garnier) and at La Scala; Königskinder and La Bohème in Zürich; first Solo albums: Richard Strauss Lieder and Romantic Arias |
| 2008 | La Bohème in Berlin (Staatsoper), La Traviata in London and at the Met; Carmen in Zürich; Tosca in London; Manon in Chicago; Fidelio in Paris (Garnier) |
| 2009 | Solo album Sehnsucht; Tosca in Zürich and Wien; Manon in Wien; Lohengrin at the opera festival in Munich; CD release Die Schöne Müllerin; Don Carlo in London; Verdi-Requiem in Paris (Pleyel) and at La Scala; inaugurazione at La Scala: Carmen |
| 2010 | Werther in Paris (Bastille); Tosca and Carmen at the Met and in München; Bayreuth debut (new production of Lohengrin); Fidelio in Luzern and München; Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur in Berlin (Deutsche Oper) and London |
| 2011 | Carmen in München; Tosca at La Scala; Siegmund / Die Walküre, Faust and solo recital at the Met; Tosca in London (ROH); concerts with Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott in München (Königsplatz), Wien (Stadthalle) and Berlin (Waldbühne) |
| 2012 | Don Carlo in München; Faust in Wien; Konzerttournee with Andris Nelsons in Birmingham, Paris (TCE), München (Philharmonie), Wien (Musikverein); Carmen, Ariadne auf Naxos and La Bohème at the Salzburg Festival; Verdi Requiem in Salzburg, at La Scala and in Luzern; inaugurazione at La Scala: Lohengrin |
| 2013 | Parsifal at the Met; CD release Wagner album; Wagner concert in Dresden (Semperoper); Don Carlo in London, München and at the Salzburg Festival; La fanciulla del West in Wien; CD release Verdi album; Il trovatore and La forza del destino in München |
| 2014 | CD release Winterreise; Werther at the Met; European recital tour with Winterreise and songs of Mahler, Wagner und Strauss; CD release Du bist die Welt für mich; Manon Lescaut in London and München |
| 2015 | Andrea Chénier in London; double debut Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci at the Salzburg Easter Festival; concert tout Du bist die Welt für mich; Japan tour with songs of Schumann, Wagner and Liszt; open air concert with Anna Netrebko in München (Königsplatz); Puccini concert at La Scala; Carmen in Orange; Fidelio at the Salzburg Festival; Aida in München; Soloist in the Last Night of the Proms; Berlioz’ Damnation de Faust in Paris |
| 2016 | Tosca in Wien and München, stage debut Walther / Die Meistersinger in München, Mahler’s Lied von der Erde (both parts) in Wien (Musikverein) and Paris (TCE); South America Tour. |
| 2017 | Lohengrin in Paris; Recital and Wagner Concert at the Barbican Centre in London; Andrea Chenier in Munich; Tosca in Vienna; Recital at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (debut); Otello at the ROH (role debut): La Forza del Destino in Munich; Don Carlos (original version) in Paris; Asia Tour (Taipei, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai). |
| 2018 | Concerts in Japan, Santa Monica and New York; Tour “Italienisches Liederbuch” (Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Paris, Budapest, Barcelona u. a.); Andrea Chenier in Barcelona and Vienna; Tristan (Act 2 concertante) in Boston and New York; Vier Letzte Lieder in London; LIfe Ball in Vienna; Concerts at the Waldbühne Berlin and the Schleswig Holstein Festival, in Madrid and Peralada; Walküre and Parsifal in Munich (Opernfestspiele); Recitals in Moskau, Milano (Scala), Vienna, Paris and Bordeaux; La Fanciulla del West at the Met; new production of Otello in Munich. |
| 2019 | Tour “Lied von der Erde” (Munich, Nuremberg, Hamburg, Lucerne, Dornach, Baden-Baden); Concerts with works from the CD “L’Opéra” in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich and Hanover; Fidelio at the Bayerische Staatsoper; La Forza del destino at the Royal Opera House in London; Otello at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Andrea Chenier in Sydney and Melbourne; new production of Die Tote Stadt in Munich. |
| 2020 | Tour “Mein Wien” (Munich, Budapest, Stuttgart, Berlin, Paris, Hamburg, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Lucerne, Baden-Baden); Fidelio at the Royal Opera House; Monday Concerts at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Met Stars Live in Concert; Aida on the Piazza del Plebiscito at the Teatro San Carlo in Napoli; Recitals at the Theater im Park in Vienna, the Grafenegg Music Festival and the Bayerische Staatsoper; Inauguration concert for the Eiffel Art Studios in Budapest; Concerts at the Festival Ljubljana and in Aalborg; Don Carlos (French version) at the Wiener Staatsoper; Recitals at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano and in Bologna; La Bohème at the Bayerischen Staatsoper; Cavalleria rusticana at theTeatro San Carlo in Napoli. |
| 2021 | Recials in Madrid and Vienna; new productions of Aida in Paris and Parsifal in Vienna; debut as Tristan in Munich; Tosca in Salzburg, Madrid, Peralada and Graz; US tour: concert in Houston, recitals in New York, Ann Arbor, Miami, Washington, Santa Monica and Berkeley; Otello in Naples. |
| 2022 | Peter Grimes (role debut) in Vienna; Turandot (in concert) in Rome; Tour with Diana Damrau and Helmut Deutsch: München, Essen, Frankfurt, Baden-Baden, London, Paris, Luxembourg, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Hamburg and Vienna; Tosca in Naples; Lohengrin in Melbourne. Recitals in München und Salzburg. Fidelio at the Festivals in Gstaad and Grafenegg. Open Air Concerts in Benediktbeuern, Salem, Vaduz and Wiesbaden. Peter Grimes and La Fanciulla del West in Munich, Andrea Chenier in Vienna, Tosca in Zürich, End-of-year concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic. |
| 2023 | Concerts in Baden-Baden, München, Essen, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Nürnberg, Frankfurt and Berlin (Waldbühne); Aida at the Wiener Staatsoper, role debut Tannhäuser at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Andrea Chenier at La Scala, Werther at the Royal Opera House; La Gioconda in Sydney; Concert Arena 100 in Verona; Doppelgänger in New York; Otello and Turandot in Vienna. |
| 2024 | Sound of Movies concerts in Baden-Baden, Prag, Naples and Munich; La Gioconda at the Salzburg Easter Festival and in Naples. |
