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Born Hamburg.

German tenor.

Gideon Poppe studied at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck and in Karlsruhe.  He was a member of the ensembles at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (2009-11) and Staatstheater Kassell (2011-13) 

In the 2013-4 season he joined the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he has sung Mozart (Don Curzio, Monostatos); Beethoven (Jaquino); Rossini (Belfiore Il viaggio a Reims);  Donizetti (Cecil Roberto Devereux);  Meyerbeer (Faucheur Dinorah);  Wagner (Steersman,  Vogelgesang);  Verdi (Bardolfo);  Bizet (Remendado);  Puccini (Goro, Harry La fanciulla del West, Pang);  Janáček (Janek The Makropulos Affair);  Korngold (Young Man Das Wunder der Heliane);  Schreker (Scribe Der Schatzgräber);  Britten (Lysander).

Other appearances include Hamburg (Four tenor roles Les Contes d'Hoffmann); Karlsruhe Handel Festival (Emilio Partenope);  Frankfurt (Boni Die Czárdásfürstin);  Cologne (title-role Candide);  Munich (Candide); Hanover (Edmondo Manon Lescaut);  Leipzig (Pang);  Dresden (Trabuco La forza del destino);  Vienna Volksoper (Caramello Eine Nacht in Venedig).

He has appeared twice at the Edinburgh International Festival.  In London he sang at the BBC Proms Strauss (Second Jew & Slave Salome).