Christoph Pohl (born 26 July 1976 in Hanover[1]) is a German operatic baritone who has performed at major opera houses in Europe, based at the Semperoper in Dresden from 2005 to 2018.
[2] He appeared as Mozart's Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, as Rossini's Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Dandini in La Cenerentola, as Belcore in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Verdi's Giorgio Germont in La traviata and Posa in Don Carlos, as Valentin in Gounod's Faust, Chorèbe in Les Troyens by Berlioz, Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhäuser, the title role of Weinberger's Schwanda the Bagpiper, Puccini's Lescaut in Manon Lescaut, Marcello in La bohème, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Spielmann in Humperdinck's Königskinder, Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, Danilo in Léhar's Die lustige Witwe, and the title role in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
[4][2][5] In 2015, Pohl first appeared at the Royal Opera House in London as Johannes in the world premiere of Morgen und Abend by Georg Friedrich Haas,[3] in a coproduction with the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
[6] He returned to London for Verdi's Posa in Don Carlo and Germont in La traviata.
[2] He appeared at the Bavarian State Opera in the 2020–21 season as Frank in Korngold's Die tote Stadt.