Ks. Winfrid Mikus

Since 1991, Ks. Winfrid Mikus has been a member of the Theater & Orchester Heidelberg – initially as a buffo tenor and, from 2002, as a character tenor and young heroic tenor.

He received his early musical training in the Hannover Boys’ Choir under Prof. Heinz Hennig and Peter Sefcik. He studied singing at the Hamburg University of Music under Prof. Naan Pöld and subsequently took private lessons with Ute Hornung.

In Heidelberg, he has sung many of the key roles in his repertoire, including the title roles in »Tannhäuser«, »Idomeneo« and Verdi’s »Otello«, Florestan in »Fidelio«, Canio in »I Pagliacci«, Max in »Der Freischütz«, Herod in »Salome« and the title role in »Titus«. Guest appearances have taken him to the opera houses in Stuttgart, Zurich, Frankfurt, Cologne, Hanover, Wiesbaden, Hamburg and Mannheim, as well as the Komische Oper Berlin. Concert tours have taken him to Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the USA, amongst other places.

In July 2011, Winfrid Mikus was appointed Kammersänger of the Theater & Orchester Heidelberg and has since appeared, amongst other roles, as Radamès in »Aida«, Cavaradossi in »Tosca«, Eisenstein in »Die Fledermaus«, Erik in »Der fliegende Holländer«, Reb Alter in Weinberg’s »Wir gratulieren (Mazl tov)«, Olai in Haas’s »Morgen und Abend«, and in the world premieres of Harneit’s »Abends am Fluss/Hochwasser« and Kalitzke’s »Pym«.