In the 2025/26 season, Friedemann Röhlig opens at Stadttheater Klagenfurt as King Marke in a new production of Tristan und Isolde. At the Aalto Theatre Essen, he will also appear as King Helge in the new production of Frithjof-Saga and as Gurnemanz in the revival of Parsifal.
His most recent engagement was as Sir Morus in the new production of Strauss’ Die schweigsame Frau at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

Guest appearances have taken him to the Opéra national de Paris, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg, San Francisco Opera, La Monnaie Brussels, Teatro Real Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Teatro Nacional Lisbon, Theater Basel, the Salzburg, Bregenz and Bayreuth Festivals, as well as to the opera houses of Hamburg, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe, Munich and Stuttgart.

His wide-ranging repertoire includes Rocco (Fidelio), Sarastro and the Speaker (The Magic Flute), Osmin (The Abduction from the Seraglio), Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Baron Ochs (Der Rosenkavalier), Morosus (Die schweigsame Frau), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Banco (Macbeth), Il Grande Inquisitore (Don Carlo), Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Kaspar (Der Freischütz) and numerous Wagner roles including Gurnemanz, Pogner, Hans Sachs, Fasolt, Fafner, Hunding, Hagen, Wotan, Marke and King Heinrich.

On the concert stage, he has appeared at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Cologne Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Gasteig Munich, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Dresden’s Kreuzkirche and Frauenkirche, Leipzig’s Thomaskirche, KKL Lucerne and the Charles Bronfman Auditorium in Tel Aviv.

Born in Leipzig, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig and the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. He is a prize-winner of the 49th ARD International Music Competition in Munich and began his career as a member of the ensemble at Staatstheater Kassel.