Michael Volle is one of the leading baritones of today's Time. He received the renowned German Theatre Prize The Faust and was voted by the opera magazine Opernwelt to the Singer of the Year. He studied with Josef Metternich and Rudolf Piernay. Michael Volles first engagements led him to the opera houses in Mannheim, Bonn and Dusseldorf, Cologne and Zurich. Later he became a member of the Munich State Opera. Subsequently, he succeeded in and he sang at the Paris Opera, La Monnaie. in Brussels, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, at the Salzburg Festival and the Bayreuth Festival.