Josh
Kohl

Tenor
Josh Kohl
American tenor Joshua Kohl has been praised for his “firm technique and dynamic phrasing" (The Baltimore Sun) and for his “strong, ringing” tone (The Washington Post). This powerful and engaging artist returns to Theater Freiburg for the 2019-2020 season in the roles of Fenton in Falstaff, Prologue/Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, Lenski in Eugene Onegin, and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly.
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Josh Kohl

On the concert stage, Mr. Kohl will appear with the Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg as the tenor soloist in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. In the United States, Mr. Kohl returns to Fargo-Moorhead Opera in the spring as Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana. During his first two seasons with Theater Freiburg, Mr. Kohl was seen as Lenski in Eugene Onegin, Rodolfo in La bohème, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Váňa Kudrjaš in Káťa Kabanová, Louis Ironson in Angels in America, and Eiolf in César Franck’s Hulda — the last of which will soon be released by Naxos. This past spring, Mr. Kohl returned home as Don Jose in Carmen with Fargo-Moorhead Opera, and in June he made his Serbian debut at the National Theater in Belgrade as Rodolfo in La bohème. Additional highlights of the 2017 - 2018 season included B.F. Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Opera Theater of Connecticut, Martin in The Tender Land with Intermountain Opera, and Váňa Kudrjaš in Káťa Kabanová with Konzert Theater Bern. On the concert stage, Mr. Kohl enjoyed collaborating with the Santa Fe Symphony as tenor soloist in Messiah as well as a return to Opera Southwest for their New Year’s Eve Gala. During the 2016-2017 season, he performed as Váňa Kudrjaš in Káťa Kabanová with Seattle Opera, as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto with Baltimore Concert Opera, as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with First Coast Opera, and as Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance with both Knoxville Opera and Fargo-Moorhead Opera.

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