Born in Riesa Wolf H. Latzel firstly enrolled in history and philosophy but soon discovered that his interest for music was considerably larger than for humanities.

Therefore he started studying singing at the Robert Schumann Conservatorium in Düsseldorf under the Kammersänger Professor Peter Christoph Runge with whom he remained until the completion of his studies. Master classes including ones with Brigitte Fassbaender, Sylvia Geszty and Krisztina Laki complemented his studies.

His first engagements took him to the Kammeroper Köln, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, the Bühnen Wuppertal, the Allee-Theater in Hamburg, the Theater Dortmund and to the Festival Theater in Baden-Baden.

His wide range of roles encompasses Mozart’s Papageno in The Magic Flute, Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Falke in Die Fledermaus, Danilo in The Merry Widdow, Pluto in Orpheus in the Underworld, Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky and Faust by Rihm.

He has worked together with such stage directors as Tobias Richter, Michael Leinert and Philipp Kochheim as well as with conductors such as John Fiore, Andreas Stoehr, Alexander Joel and Günther Albers.

In addition to his commitments to stage productions he has also worked extensively as a concert singer singing not only cantatas and masses but also oratorios including Haydn’s The Creation, Mendelssohns’  Elijah and Handel’s Messiah.

He is equally at home with contemporary music having performed several world premières.
 

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