Christof Fischesser studied singing in Frankfurt am Main. In 2000, he won first prize at the Federal Singing Competition in Berlin, after which he was engaged at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe. In 2004, he moved to the Berlin State Opera, and from 2012 to 2015, he was a member of the ensemble at the Zurich Opera House, with which he has maintained a close collaboration ever since. He has also appeared as a guest at the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House London, the Opéra Bastille Paris, Teatro Real Madrid, the Munich State Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Opéra de Lyon, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera Chicago, as well as the opera houses of Antwerp, Copenhagen, and Gothenburg.
His wide-ranging repertoire includes roles such as King Marke (“Tristan und Isolde”), Landgrave (“Tannhäuser”), King Heinrich (“Lohengrin”), Gurnemanz (“Parsifal”), Sarastro (“Die Zauberflöte”), Figaro (“Le nozze di Figaro”), Rocco (“Fidelio”), Banquo (“Macbeth”), Mephisto (“Faust”), and Baron Ochs von Lerchenau (“Der Rosenkavalier”). Numerous CDs and DVDs document his artistic work, such as Beethoven’s “Fidelio” conducted by Claudio Abbado (with Nina Stemme and Jonas Kaufmann), Massenet’s “Manon” under Daniel Barenboim (with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón), and Wagner’s “Lohengrin” conducted by Kent Nagano (with Anja Harteros and Jonas Kaufmann).
In Zurich, he has performed roles including King Heinrich, Orestes (“Elektra”), Kaspar, Daland, Gremin, Gurnemanz (“Parsifal”), Il Marchese di Calatrava, Padre Guardiano (“La forza del destino”), Hunding (“Die Walküre”), and Jacopo Fiesco (“Simon Boccanegra”).