Jörg Schörner

Jörg Schörner is a German tenor, born in Magdeburg. He studied singing at the University of Music and Theatre «Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy» in Leipzig, beginning his career as a baritone at the Halberstadt Municipal Theatre. In 1993, during a postgraduate course in Leipzig, he made the transition to the tenor repertoire. He made his debut at Leipzig Opera in 1994 as Peter Iwanow in Zar und Zimmermann by Albert Lortzing.

Following his time in Leipzig—where he performed roles such as Shuisky in Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky and the Steersman in Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman—he joined the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2001.

His repertoire includes Monostatos in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Pang in Puccini’s Turandot, Melot in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, Nando in Tiefland by Eugen d’Albert, Scaramuccio in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, Arthur in The Castle by Aribert Reimann, Heinrich the Scribe in Wagner’s Tannhäuser, the Witch in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, the Duke of Alençon in Joan of Arc – Scenes from the Life of Saint Joan by Walter Braunfels, and the tenor soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana.

Alongside his work at the Deutsche Oper, he also regularly performs with the Munich Radio Orchestra and appears as a narrator in concerts with the Berlin Doctors' Orchestra.