Carl Rumstadt

Bavarian baritone Carl Rumstadt’s career combines ensemble work in Bern, Trier and Bonn with guest appearances in Germany and abroad. His repertoire encompasses Mozart, Rossini and Verdi alongside German opera and works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His engagements in 2026 include Roger in Szymanowski’s Król Roger and Jack Torrance in Paul Moravec’s The Shining at Staatstheater Regensburg, and Captain Balstrode in Britten’s Peter Grimes at Staatstheater Braunschweig.

Mozart has been a continuing presence in Mr. Rumstadt’s stage work. He has sung Don Giovanni in Bern and Trier, Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro in Bern and Dortmund, and Count Almaviva and Don Alfonso in Trier. Following his appointments in Bern and Trier, he joined Theater Bonn in 2022 and remained an ensemble member until 2026. His Bonn repertoire included the title role in Eugene Onegin, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly and the Geisterbote in Die Frau ohne Schatten. Onegin also brought him to Heidelberg, while Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus has featured in his work in Trier and Koblenz.

In 2022, Mr. Rumstadt made his Staatsoper Unter den Linden debut as Herr Fluth in Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. Further guest engagements have taken him to Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Opera House Muscat, Cairo Opera House, Oper Graz and the Münchner Biennale, as well as theatres including Meiningen, Kassel, Nuremberg and Osnabrück. His wider repertoire includes Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rodrigo in Don Carlo, Marcello in La bohème, Wolfram in Tannhäuser, the Father in Hänsel und Gretel, Danilo in Die lustige Witwe and Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia.

In concert, Mr. Rumstadt has appeared as a soloist in works such as Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elias and Paulus, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and Kindertotenlieder, and Orff’s Carmina Burana.

Mr. Rumstadt received his vocal training at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, studying with Siegfried Jerusalem and Fenna Kügel Seifried. His training also included the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding.