With a voice of “warm, noble timbre and great flexibility” (Forum Opéra), German bass-baritone Christian Immler is a multifaceted artist whose career ranges widely across the worlds of lieder, oratorio and opera, “a technically, musically and stylistically consummate interpreter, with a strikingly masculine, truly grounded bass capable of tenoral splendour, exemplary diction and emotional urgency coupled with a deep intellectual textual understanding” (Klassik Heute). His artistry is strongly centred in the baroque and early Classical repertoire, but with a versatility that extends through the 19th century recital and orchestral tradition and into contemporary works.

Recent operatic highlights have included the role of Fasolt in Das Rheingold with Kent Nagano and Concerto Köln, Telemann’s Orpheus with the B’Rock Orchestra, the Hermit in Der Freischütz at the Opéra de Rouen and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Musiklehrer in Ariadne auf Naxos in Luxembourg, Don Fernando in Fidelio at the Opéra Comique in Paris, Nettuno in Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with Ensemble I Gemelli and Rocco in Beethoven’s Leonore, as well as a recording of the Oberpriester in Joachim Raff’s Samson with the Sinfonieorchester Bern.

On the concert stage, he sang in the world premiere of Detlev Glanert’s ‘Prague Symphony’ with Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic, and subsequent performances with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra; he has been a soloist in Mozart’s C minor Mass with both Ensemble Pygmalion and the Munich Philharmonic, Mozart’s Requiem with the Flanders Symphony, Kindertotenlieder with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and in a recording and performances of Haydn’s Stabat Mater and Salve Regina with the Kammerorchester Basel.