David Steffens

David Steffens is a German bass who grew up in Bad Reichenhall in Bavaria. He studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Horiana Brănișteanu and in the song class of Wolfgang Holzmair, and in 2011 received the Lilli Lehmann Medal as the outstanding graduate of his year. He spent the 2011/12 season in the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera and took part in the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project in 2012. Since the 2015/16 season he has been a member of the Stuttgart State Opera, where his roles have included Sarastro, Figaro, King Heinrich in Lohengrin and Gremin in Eugene Onegin. As a guest he has sung Osmin in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier.