Matthias von Stegmann (born 1968) is a German actor, voice-over speaker and writer, author and stage director for theatre and especially opera who works internationally.
He staged a version of his Der Ring des Nibelungen for children, first in Tokyo, then in German at the Vienna State Opera and in Zurich.
[1] He began a career as a voice-over speaker (Synchronsprecher [de]) at age ten, and was heard in TV series such as Little House on the Prairie (Unsere kleine Farm) and The Bad News Bears (Die Bären sind los).
[4] Dara Hobbs and Andreas Schager performed the title roles, and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie was conducted in the back of the stage by Frank Beermann.
[3][7] As an actor, he appeared in the part of Bassa Selim in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Metropolitan Opera in 2003, repeated in 2008.