UC Davis Symphony Orchestra Christian Baldini, music director and conductor UC Davis Department of Music

Wolfgang Brendel is an operatic German baritone, In 1997 he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany). His most recent appearances have been as Scarpia, Mandryka, Sachs, Eisenstein, and Holländer. Brendel regularly conducts master classes and courses in the United States (including at the Boston and San Francisco Conservatories of Music) and is professor of voice at the Munich Hochschule für Musik und Theater. He began studies at the Wiesbaden Conservatory of Music at the age of 16.



Wolfgang Brendel (Mandrakya) and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (Arabella) sing “Und du wirst mein Gebieter sein" from Richard Strauss's Arabella with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus.