German bass Patrick Zielke is celebrated by audiences and the press alike for his outstanding role interpretations. For his portrayal of Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier at Theater Bremen, he was awarded the prestigious German theater prize “Der Faust” in the category “Best Singer-Actor in Opera (Musiktheater)”.

In the current 2024/25 season, he will make his house debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where he can be seen as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte and Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro. This season, he will be on stage at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe as Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier. The singer will also return to Theater Basel as Hagen in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.

Following his great success as Ochs in the 2021/22 season, he returned to the State Theatre Nurnberg as Gurnemanz in the new production of Parsifal in the 2023/24 season. He also performed Hunding in a historically-informed production of Die Walküre under the baton of Kent Nagano, with concerts at the Prague State Opera, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Elbphilharmonie, and the Lucerne Festival.

In 2022/23, he made his debut at the Stuttgart State Opera as Hagen/Alberich in Götterdämmerung, as Dikoj in Káťja Kabanová and at Theater Bremen as Filippo II (Don Carlo). Other recent guest appearances have taken him to Theater Basel as Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte) and to Frankfurt Opera as Peneios (Daphne).

Patrick Zielke has been a member of the Mannheim National Theatre ensemble since the 2017/18 season, where he made his role debuts as Ochs, King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Rocco (Fidelio), Fafner, Hunding and Hagen in Ring des Nibelungen, Landgrave Hermann in Tannhäuser and in the title role of Boris Godunov.

Patrick Zielke completed his vocal studies at the Stuttgart University of Music with Dunja Vejzović. He is a prize winner of the Concours Ernst Haefliger and the International Richard Wagner Competition.
After a two-year engagement at the Lucerne Theater, he joined the ensemble of the Theater Bremen, where he made his debuts as Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), Gurnemanz (Parsifal), Boris Ismailov (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk) and Gianni Schicchi in Gicomo Puccini’s opera of the same name.