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Tobias Kehrer (born in Dessau) is a German opera singer of the bass voice. He is a guest at important opera houses and at the Salzburg Festival.
Kehrer completed his vocal studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Siegfried Lorenz in February 2011. Already during his studies, he gained his first stage experience in studio productions and in 2008 was the only German to participate in the opera competition of the Kyoto International Music Students Festival. In 2009 he took over several roles in a production of the waxworks cabinet of Karl Amadeus Hartmann at the Kurt Weill Fest in Dessau. Other engagements followed at the Opera House Chemnitz, at the Aalto Theater in Essen and as Hunding in the first act of the Valkyrie at the Orquesta de Valencia. In the season 2011/12, the singer received the Franz Josef Weisweiler scholarship of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
At the Salzburg Festival Kehrer debuted in 2012 as Truffaldin in Hofmannsthal / Strauss 'Ariadne on Naxos, sang in 2013 the night watchman in the Meistersingern of Nuremberg and concertante Jacobus of Arc in Braunfels' Jeanne d'Arc, as well as in 2014 the police commissioner in Harry Kupfers Rosenkavalier - New production and the bass solo in Bruckner's Te Deum under Philippe Jordan.
Since the season 2012/13 Kehrer is a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. There he sings among others Sarastro and Masetto, the Basilio in the Barber of Seville and the Sparafucile in Rigoletto, the Jacopo Loredano in the Foscari and the monk in Don Carlos, the Zuniga in the Carmen and the Lieutenant Ratcliffe in Billy Budd. In the 2013/14 season, he starred as Brander in a new production of Berlioz's La damnation de Faust under Donald Runnicles. Kehrer also sang at the London Proms. In October 2014 he made his debut as Sarastro at the Metropolitan Opera New York. At the Festival in Glyndebourne 2015, he sang the role of Osmin.