San Diego Opera debut. German baritone Hans-Joachim Ketelsen has enjoyed a long history as a principal artist with Dresden’s Semperoper where he has appeared as Jochanaan in Salome, Mandryka in Arabella, Orest in Elektra, Amfortas in Parsifal, Heerufer and Telramund in Lohengrin, Geisterbote in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Kothner and Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, Morone in Palestrina, Donner in Das Rheingold, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Peter in Hansel and Gretel, The Speaker in The Magic Flute and as Faninal. He made his Bayreuth Festival debut as Kothner and for his Metropolitan Opera debut sang Mandryka, returning again for Beckmesser and Faninal. Other notable performances include Telramund for the opening of the New National Theatre in Tokyo and Hamburgische Staatsoper and Gunther in Götterdämmerung at Teatro Real Madrid. He’s been seen at the world’s greatest companies including the Wiener Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, La Scala, Deutsch Oper Berlin, Teatro Real in Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and Leipzig Opera, among others. He has recorded Kothner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for Berlin Classics and EMI.