Born in Herford, Woldt studied composition with Giselher Klebe as well as singing with Martin Christian Vogel and Thomas Quasthoff at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold.
[4] His concert repertoire includes Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion as well as the St. John Passion, the Christmas Oratorio and the B Minor Mass, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's The Creation and The Seasons, Mozart's Requiem, Beethoven's Symphony No.
Since the 2010/2011 season, he has been a member of the ensemble of the State Opera, where he has successfully appeared among others as Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier, Waldner in Arabella, Rocco in Fidelio and Biterolf in Tannhäuser.
[9] In 1997, he received a scholarship from the International Association of Wagner Societies, and in 2004 he was awarded the Eberhard Waechter Medal as a sponsorship prize from the Vienna State Opera.
For the best male lead role in Der Wildschütz at the Volksoper Wien as Baculus he received the Austrian Music Theatre Award [de] 2014.