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Live on April 13th from 11 a.m. from the Vienna State Opera
Bogdan Roščić will present the 2025/26 season during a matinee on the stage of the Vienna State Opera!

Featuring: Timoor Afshar, Benjamin Bernheim, Malin Byström, Cyrill Dubois, Étienne Dupuis, Olga Esina, Florina Illie, Günther Groissböck, Clay Hilley, Daniel Jenz, Patrick Lange, Alma Neuhaus, Patricia Nolz, Camilla Nylund, Ilia Staple, Pretty Yende and Slávka Zámečníková.

Foto(c)Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Pöhn

Live broadcast of the premiere from the Vienna State Opera on 24 March 2025 on Radio oe1, from 7.30 pm

Broadcast of the premiere from the Vienna State Opera on 5 April 2025 on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, from 7.05 pm

ORF III television broadcast: Sunday, 6 April 2025, from 8.15 pm

Livestream of the Vienna State Opera on play.wiener-staatsoper.at: Sunday, 6 April 2025, from 7.30 pm

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Fantastic to have taken part in the 67th Vienna Opera Ball as an artist at the opening alongside Nadine Sierra, Juan Diego Flórez and Maria Nazarova! The orchestra of the Vienna State Opera was led by Cornelius Meister. An unforgettable evening full of music, elegance and dancing!

Click here for the performance on ORF or here!

© Franz Grabmayr | Rote Felsenwand, 2009, Öl auf Leinwand, 110×160 cm

 

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Simone Schneider (Leonore), Michael Spyres (Florestan), Tomasz Konieczny/Jordan Shanahan (Don Pizarro), Georg Zeppenfeld (Rocco), Florina Ilie (Marzelline), Daniel Jenz (Jaquino)
Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper; Conductor: Axel Kober

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Performances on February 13th, 16th, 20th and 23rd

“Daniel Jenz zeigt als Jaquino das vielversprechende Potenzial seiner schönen Tenorstimme.”
KURIER

“Daniel Jenz —Jaquino— lució un canto de equilibrado registro y cristalina vocalidad”
ÓPERA ACTUAL

“Ein hervorragendes Rollendebüt gelang […] Daniel Jenz als Jaquino”
Wiener Zeitung

After my turbulent performance as Tanzmeister in the prelude of “Ariadne auf Naxos” in 2016, I am now taking a new step into Richard Strauss’ masterpiece. This time I take on the role of Brighella – a cunning character from the Commedia dell’arte – and celebrate my debut in the main part of the opera.

Foto(c)Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Pöhn

Currently to listen to on Radio Ö1, Radio France und Deutschlandfunk Kultur!

The still young year begins with anticipation of the Bayreuth Festival 2025. I am grateful to be part of the new production of “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” as well as the revivals of “Tristan und Isolde” and “Parsifal”. In November, I had the great privilege of visiting the hotel room at the Grand Hotel et Des Palmes in Palermo during a guest performance, where Richard Wagner once resided. It was at that grand piano that he completed the composition of “Parsifal” on January 13, 1882.

Photo©Rosellina Garbo

I am pleased to be able to celebrate my Italian debut with Ligetis’ anti-anti-opera “Le Grand Macabre” at the largest opera house in the country, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. Premiere is November 24th!

Here you can find a small insight into the production.

©Gabrieliaus Jauniškio nuotr.

It‘s a great pleasure to sing Narraboth on October 14th in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius alongside the newly crowned „Singer of the Year“ Asmik Grigorian. The musical direction is by Gintaras Rinkevičius, the scenic arrangement is by Dalia Ibelhauptaitė!

„Was die Besetzung angeht, brilliert das Ensemble der Wiener Staatsoper mit ausgesprochener Wortdeutlichkeit in den kleinen Rollen, wobei Daniel Jenz als tenoral schmachtender Narraboth [u.a.] herausragen.“
DAS OPERNGLAS, 3/2023

„En revanche, le Page de Patricia Nolz accroche l‘oreille, et Daniel Jenz, plus encore, Narraboth au ténor idéalement svelte et étincelant.“
OPÉRA magazine, 3/2023

„Mit Daniel Jenz hat das Haus am Ring wieder einen erstklassigen Narraboth“
KURIER

„Daniel Jenz, tenorista, který je nedávnou posilou vídeňské opery. Má příjemný zvučný tenor i exteriér, je to mladík, kterého zajímá jen dívčina krása a nevnímá nic jiného.“
klasikaplus.cz

„Intenso, lirico e ricco di squarci di dolcezza in Narraboth di Daniel Jenz.“
wanderersite.com

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The 112th Bayreuth Festival will open on July 25, 2024 with a new production of “Tristan and Isolde”.

Foto(c)Enrico Nawrath

Der lyrisch beseelte Hirte (Daniel Jenz) scheint mit seinem weißen Fellzauselüberwurf Engelsflügel auszuführen.
DIE WELT

Hervorzuheben noch ist Daniel Jenz‘ fein gestalteter Hirt.
Badische Zeitung

Aufhorchen lässt auch Daniel Jenz, der mit exzellenter Diktion und sehr direktem Tenor den engelshaften Hirten gibt.
operablog.org

So erlebt man hier also einen strahlenden Steuermann (Daniel Jenz, sonst Hirte im „Tristan“)
FAZ

More information can be found here!
The video recording of the premiere is available here until December 31st.

“Das ist Karfreitags-Zauber”
The new complete recording of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal” from the Vienna State Opera will be released by Sony Classical in 2024.
Singing under the direction of Philippe Jordan: Jonas Kaufmann as Parsifal, Elīna Garanča as Kundry, Georg Zeppenfeld as Gurnemanz and Ludovic Tézier as Amfortas.

The world premiere recording of this forgotten operetta appeared in 2020 for the anniversary of Lehár. Check out the playlist!

“Sieglinde Feldhofer (Cloclo) and her two suitors Gerd Vogel (Severin) and Daniel Jenz (Maxime) all have flexible, pleasantly transparent voices with a tart, occasionally plangent edge that actually proves something of an asset in material as sweet as this.“
GRAMOPHONE, 11/2020

“Daniel Jenz (Maxime de la Vallé) lässt […] an Martin Finke in den klassischen EMI-Lehár-Produktionen denken.“
FONO FORUM, 11/2020

“mit der frivolen wie anrührenden Sieglinde Feldhofer […] die am Ende doch ihren altersmäßig passenderen Galan in der angenehmen Tenorsinggestalt von Daniel Jenz abbekommt.“
OPER! Das Magazin, 10/2020

“die mit den Protagonisten Sieglinde Feldhofer (Cloclo), Gerd Vogel und Susanna Hirschler (als komisches Bürgermeister-Ehepaar) und Daniel Jenz (als Cloclos Liebhaber Maxime de la Vallé) so versierte und spielfreudige Interpreten fand.“
OPERNWELT, 3/2021