Daniel Behle

Daniel Behle is a German tenor and composer, born in Hamburg in 1974. He studied trombone and composition at the Hamburg academy of music and trained as a singer alongside, partly with his mother, the soprano Renate Behle. His first engagements were at the Oldenburg State Theatre and the Vienna Volksoper. His repertoire runs from Baroque music and Mozart to Wagner: he made his Bayreuth Festival debut in 2017 as David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He is also a song recitalist, often with the pianist Oliver Schnyder, and has recorded widely. As a composer he has made arrangements for tenor and piano trio and written the operetta Hopfen und Malz, first staged in 2023.