Andreas Schmidt

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 Andreas Schmidt was born 1960 in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he began his studies with piano, organ and conducting before changing to singing. His teachers were Ingeborg Reichelt in Düsseldorf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Berlin. After he had won the "Deutscher Musikwettbewerb" in 1983, he immediately started his operatic career at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Since then he has sung numerous roles in both houses in Berlin. Andreas Schmidt sings in operahouses like the Staatsoper Hamburg, Dresden, Munich and Vienna, the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, the Grand Theatre de Geneve, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, the Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Grand Opera and the Bastille Paris, the Teatro alla Scala Milano and the Metropolitan Opera New York. 
 Concert and Recitaltours lead him to the musical centers of the world, where he appeared with nearly all of the important orchestras under conductors like Abbado, Ashkenazy, Barenboim, Bernstein, Bertini, Blomstedt, Bolton, Bychkov, Chailly, Conlon, C. Davis, Dohnanyi, Eschenbach, Frühbeck de Burgos, Gatti, Gardiner, Giulini, Haitink, Harnoncourt, Janowski, Jordan, Levine, Luisi, Marriner, Masur, Metzmacher, Muti, Nagano, Norrington, Ozawa, Rilling, Sawallisch, Schreier, Sinopoli, Solti, Stein, Tate, Thielemann and many others. 
 Beside his work as opera and concertsinger, he is as well known in the field of the German "Lied".