About this Artist

American heldentenor Stephen Gould started in the 2019/20 season with an appearance at the Opera Ball in St. Petersburg and a Wagnerian concert at the BBC Proms in London. Plans include Ariadne auf Naxos in both Hamburg an Vienna, the 1st act Die Walküre in Vienna, the 2nd act Tristan und Isolde in concert in Washington as well as Tristan und Isolde at Deutsche Oper Berlin and Tannhäuser in Riga.
2020 are scheduled the 1st act of Die Walküre in Copenhagen, Otello, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung in Vienna, Die Frau ohne Schatten in concert under Yannick Nézet-Séguin with Rotterdam Philharmonic in Rotterdam, Dortmund and Paris, Gurre-Lieder conducted by Thielemann in Dresden and Salzburg, Tannhäuser and a new production Götterdämmerung in Bayreuth, Tristan und Isolde in Berlin and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen in Los Angeles as well as Otello in Manheim.
2021 he will perform Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung conducted by Thielemann in Dresden, Götterdämmerung at Bayreuth Festival as well as Tristan und Isolde in both Valencia and San Francisco.

Highlights of past seasons include Tannhäuser at Bayreuth Festival, in Budapest, Vienna, Mannheim, Las Palmas, Paris, Tokyo, and Geneva, Die Frau ohne Schatten in Vienna, Buenos Aires, at Salzburg Festival and in Dresden, Die Walküre with Bayreuth Festival in Abu Dhabi, Ariadne auf Naxos in Dresden, Fidelio in Tokyo Hamburg, Dresden, Munich, Florence and Rome, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung Vienna, Dresden, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Bayreuth and New York, Parsifal in Baden-Baden and Vienna, Tristan und Isolde in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, at Bayreuth Festival, in Zurich, London, Tokyo, Dresden, Berlin and in concert in Birmingham, Paris, Berlin and La Coruña, his role debuts as Loge in Das Rheingold and as Siegmund in Die Walküre in Tokyo, Otello in Dresden, Tokyo, Karlsruhe and Florence, his first Aegisth in a concert performance of Elektra in Berlin, Ariadne auf Naxos in Vienna, Dresden and Graz, Fidelio in Hamburg, Dresden, Munich, Tokyo, Florence and Rome, I Pagliacci in Berlin, Lohengrin in Hamburg, Trieste and Dresden, Parsifal in Vienna, Berlin, Dresden and Graz, Der fliegende Holländer in Turin, Wien, Madrid, New York, Munich and Palermo, Les Troyens in Valencia and Florence, Peter Grimes in Dresden and Geneva, Die Liebe der Danae in Dresden, or Die tote Stadt in Berlin, Vienna and London.

Stephen Gould has performed with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Ivor Bolton, Riccardo Chailly, Adam Fischer, Daniele Gatti, Hartmut Haenchen, Marek Janowski, Philippe Jordan, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Ingo Metzmacher, Kent Nagano, Andris Nelsons, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Christian Thielemann, Franz Welser-Möst and David Zinman.

He sang Beethoven’s 9th symphony in Berlin and Munich, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in Chicago, Schönberg’s Gurre-Lieder in Munich, Montreal, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Montreux and at the Lucerne Festival, Mahler's 8th symphony in Bergen, New York with Pierre Boulez, Leipzig, Paris, Vienna and Budapest, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in Chicago, Berlin, Graz, Lucerne, Paris and Prague, or Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex in London.

Among his recordings are Beethoven IX with Donald Runnicles, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung and Tristan und Isolde with Christian Thielemann as well as Siegfried and Tristan und Isolde with Marek Janowski.

In May 2015 he was awarded the title Österreichischer Kammersänger.