WDR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA COLOGNE
Strauss - Salome - Jochanaan
Sep 1 (Bucharest),
Sep 6 (Cologne)

OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS
Wagner - Walküre - Wotan
PREMIERE Nov 11
Nov 15/18/21/24/27/30
Wagner - Siegfried - Wotan
PREMIERE Jan 17
Jan 21/25/28/31

BAVARIAN STATE OPERA
Strauss - Elektra - Orest
March 18/21/27

DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN
Wagner - Rheingold - Wotan
May 16/26
Wagner - Siegfried - Wotan
May 23/29

ORCHESTRA PHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE
Wagner - Tristan and Isolde - Kurwenal
July 11 (Montpellier)

Biography

The British bass-baritone Iain Paterson is one of the most distinguished Wagner interpreters of his generation.

In the 2026/27 season, Iain Paterson will once again dedicate himself to one of his central Wagner roles: as Kurwenal, he will be heard in two high-caliber performance series of Tristan und Isolde . First, he will appear as a guest artist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris under the musical direction of Jaap van Zweden; subsequently, the same role will take him to Florence, where he will perform with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under Alexander Soddy.

Among the outstanding commitments of recent seasons is his return to the Opéra national de Paris as Wotan in Die Walküre and Siegfried , his role debut as Orest in Elektra at the Bavarian State Opera, as well as further performances as Wotan in Das Rheingold and Siegfried at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
His repertoire includes key roles such as Wotan/Wanderer, Flying Dutchman, Kurwenal, Amfortas ( Parsifal ), Jochanaan, Orest, Balstrode, and the Forester in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen .
He regularly performs at major opera houses such as the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Royal Opera House London, the Berlin State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Opéra National de Paris He has appeared as a guest artist at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Houston Grand Opera, and the English National Opera, where he developed numerous roles within his core repertoire. His interpretation of Leontes in the world premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth's The Winter's Tale also demonstrated his artistic versatility.
Paterson has appeared several times at the Bayreuth Festival, most recently as Kurwenal ( Tristan und Isolde ) under Christian Thielemann and as Wotan in Das Rheingold under Marek Janowski. In the concert arena, he has sung, among other works, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the BBC Philharmonic, as well as Elgar's Dream of Gerontius at the Edinburgh Festival.
He works regularly with conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Simon Rattle, Andris Nelsons, Edward Gardner, and Vasily Petrenko. Iain Paterson studied singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Neilson Taylor.
2026/27
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