Klaus Florian Vogt (born 12 April 1970) is a German operatic tenor. He has often sung roles written by Richard Wagner.
Career Klaus Florian Vogt was a hornist first and played for several years with the Hamburg Philharmonic. He studied voice at the Lübeck Academy of Music and was first engaged at the Landestheater in Flensburg.Klaus Florian Vogt Deutsche Oper Berlin
In 1998 he moved to the Semperoper in Dresden, where he worked with Giuseppe Sinopoli and Colin Davis. He started as a lyrical tenor, singing Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, then also Hans in Smetana's The Bartered Bride and Matteo in Strauss' Arabella.
He sang Wagner's Lohengrin first at the Theater Erfurt in 2002, followed by international appearances in this part and also as Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, his debut part at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 2007, and Parsifal. Furthermore, in 2026, Vogt undertook the marathon task of singing roles in each of the four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen: Loge (for the first time as the character) in Das Rheingold, Siegmund in Die Walküre, and Siegfried in the titular opera as well as Götterdämmerung.
In the concert repertoire, he recorded Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, with Christian Gerhaher and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano in 2009.Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde review of Hugo Shirley, 2 July 2009
Several reviewers have characterized Vogt's voice as "reedy".
References
External links
Klaus Florian Vogt on his agent's website, including a list of his opera parts (in German) Entries for recordings by Klaus Florian Vogt on WorldCat