This is Andreas Bauer Kanabas's first solo Lieder CD. Andreas Bauer Kanabas sings major operatic bass roles in eight different languages. His repertoire includes Verdi roles such as Philippe II (in Italian and French), Zaccaria, Fiesco, De Silva, and Padre Guardiano, as well as lyric Wagner roles such as K?nig Marke, K?nig Heinrich, Landgrave Hermann, Veit Pogner, and Daland. He sings Mephisto in Gounod's Faust, the title role in Bluebeard's Castle, Vodnik (Rusalka), Gremin (Eugene Onegin), Ibn Hakia and King Ren? (Iolanta), Claggart (Billy Budd), Escamillo (Carmen), as well as Mozart roles including Sarastro, Osmin and Commendatore. Andreas Bauer Kanabas sings on international stages such as the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London, Op?ra Bastille de Paris, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Teatro Real Madrid, Seattle Opera, New National Theater in Tokyo, Teatro Municipal Santiago de Chile, Op?ra de Lyon, Th?atre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Latvian National Opera Riga, Semperoper Dresden, and Munich State Opera, as well as at the Berlin State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Komische Oper Berlin. He has been an ensemble member of Frankfurt Opera since 2013.