Benjamin Appl

The last student of the great baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Benjamin Appl has had equally distinguished careers in lieder, opera, and concert music. He is equally at home in modern and historically informed performances. Appl was born in Regensburg, Bavaria, then in West Germany, in 1982. He began his singing career in the Regensburger Domspatzen, a local boys' cathedral choir with a national and even international reputation. Appl went on to the Munich University of Music and Theater, working with Helmut Deutsch and also earning a business degree in Munich at the same t...