Christian Gerhaher studied medicine and voice in Munich and completed his training in masterclasses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Inge Borkh. During his studies, he already formed a partnership with the pianist Gerold Huber, which has set standards in song interpretation for more than three decades. Collaborations with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mariss Jansons, Andris Nelsons, Antonio Pappano, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Rattle, and Christian Thielemann have taken him to the world’s leading orchestras and concert halls. He is a regular guest at the festivals in Edinburgh, Lucerne, and Salzburg, as well as at the Rheingau Musik Festival and the BBC Proms. His principal opera roles include Wolfram ("Tannhäuser"), Posa ("Don Carlo"), Germont ("La traviata"), Il Conte di Almaviva ("Le nozze di Figaro"), Orfeo, Don Giovanni, Simon Boccanegra, Amfortas ("Parsifal"), Pelléas, the Prince of Homburg, as well as Lenau in Holliger’s "Lunea". His portrayal of Wozzeck at the Zurich Opera House is considered a milestone. Together with Gerold Huber, he released song cycles by Schubert, Schumann, and Mahler, as well as most recently a Brahms album (2025); their recording "Robert Schumann: Alle Lieder" received the OPUS Klassik in 2022, and the duo was awarded the Hugo-Wolf-Medaille in 2024. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Zurich awarded him an honorary doctorate. Gerhaher is the author of "Lyrisches Tagebuch" (C. H. Beck, 2022) and Professor of Song Interpretation at the University of Music and Theatre Munich as well as at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
7. February 2018
In a concert on the Studiobühne, the world-famous baritone Christian Gerhaher introduces himself to the audience. Gerhaher plays the lead role in Holliger's new opera Lunea, which deals with the fascinating romantic poet Nikolaus Lenau. Accompanied by his well-known piano partner Gerold Huber, he sings Robert Schumann's Lieder op. 90 on poems by Nikolaus Lenau, and then talks about his artistic work in an interview with Claus Spahn.

