The young bass Manuel Winckhler has been a member of the International Opera Studio at the Berlin State Opera since the 2024/25 season, where he has already appeared in roles including the Einarmiger (R. Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten), Le Duc de Verone (C. Gounod: Roméo et Juliette), Vanuzzi (R. Strauss: Die schweigsame Frau), Samuel (G. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera), Truffaldin (R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos) and Sarastro (W. A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte). From the beginning of the 2026/27 season, he will join the company’s soloist ensemble.

He made his stage debut in 2022 in Jonny spielt auf at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz. Since then, guest engagements have taken him to the Prinzregententheater in Munich as Lycomedes in Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz’s Achill unter den Mädchen, to the Kammeroper München as Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), to the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the Elbphilharmonie as Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), to Opera Ballet Vlaanderen as the Hermit (Der Freischütz), to the Theater Aachen as Gremin (Eugene Onegin), and to the Salzburg Festival 2024 as a participant in the Young Singers Project.

He has collaborated with ensembles such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, as well as with conductors including Christian Thielemann, Bertrand de Billy, Georg Fritzsch, Philippe Herreweghe, Philippe Jordan, Zubin Mehta, Alejo Pérez, Tarmo Peltokoski, Johanna Soller, Constantin Trinks, and Jordi Savall. His concert repertoire includes Bach’s Passions, Mozart’s Requiem, Brahms’ German Requiem, Haydn’s Creation, and Bruckner’s Te Deum.

Manuel Winckhler was born in Munich and received most of his training at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich with Lars Woldt. Prior to that, he studied at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Andreas Macco and Fenna Kügel-Seifried. He also received important artistic guidance from Waltraud Meier, Michael Volle, Hedwig Fassbender, Christian Gerhaher, Malcolm Martineau, Camilla Nylund, Elena Pankratova, and Michelle Wegwart.

At the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang 2024 in Berlin, he won First Prize in the Opera/Operetta category. He is also a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association Munich.

Last updated: May 2026

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