Bass-baritone Wolfgang Schöne makes his LA Opera debut as Lodovico Nardi in the U.S. premiere of Franz Schreker's The Stigmatized (Die Gezeichneten) in April 2010.

Celebrated by the New York Times for a "beautiful lower register and his expressive power," Wolfgang Schöne is a pre-eminent artist on the world's greatest opera stages. He has sung the title role in Der fliegende Holländer in Amsterdam, Cologne, Barcelona, and Hamburg; his noted portrayals of Dr. Schön in Lulu in Paris, Cologne, Glyndebourne, Athens, and Stuttgart; Lodovico Nardi in Die Gezeichneten at the Salzburg Festival and Amsterdam; Amfortas in Parsifal in Amsterdam and Hamburg, Paris, Munich, Tokyo, and London under the baton of Simon Rattle. He has also sung Mandryka in Arabella together with Kiri Te Kanawa in Berlin and then in Dresden; Borromeo in Palestrina under the baton of Christian Thielemann also in Berlin; Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde in Montpellier, and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte in Tokyo and at La Scala.

Also among the over 70 roles to the bass-baritone's credit are acclaimed performances of Barak in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Jochanaan in Salome, the title role in Don Giovanni, the Wanderer in Siegfried, Germont in La Traviata, Athanaël in Thaïs, and Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger.

Mr. Schöne's long association with the State Opera of Stuttgart began in 1973, and in 1978 he was awarded the title of Kammersänger in recognition of his achievements. He celebrated a triumphant success in the title role in Rigoletto and has also joined the company for numerous roles including Amfortas in Parsifal, Orest in Elektra, and Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde.

Equally at home on the concert stage, he has appeared with the world's leading orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, London Philharmonic and Concertgebouw Amsterdam. He has numerous commercially released recordings, and has sung with Georg Solti, Herbert von Karajan, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Riccardo Chailly, Christian Thielemann, Simon Rattle, Rafael Kubelik, Jeffrey Tate, and Andrew Davies.