As NUTRICE/PRIMO FAMIGLIARE in “L'incoronazione di Poppea” and in the season 2023/24 as WHITE MINISTER in György Ligeti’ s “Le Grand Macabre” – both of them world premieres  at the Vienna State Opera under Pablo Heras-Casado -  he set remarkable standards. 

 

On the occasion of a guest performance of the Vienna State Opera in Tokyo, he sang BASILIO in “Le nozze di Figaro” and FANINAL’S MAJOR DOMO in “Der Rosenkavalier”.  

 

Since his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2024 he is a regular guest at this renowned festival. He performs roles like the HIRT in the new production  (2024) “Tristan und Isolde” , the STEERSMAN in “The Flying Dutchman for Kids, KUNZ VOGELGESANG in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the 1st  GRALSRITTER in Parsifal.

In autumn 2024 he made his debut at the Teatro Massimo Palermo as WHITE MINISTER in Le Grand Macabre and at the City Opera Vilnius as NARRABOTH in Gala-performance of Salome (next to Asmik Grigorian).

Guest engagements brought him to the Berlin State Opera, the opera houses of Frankfurt and Bonn, the Hamburg State Opera, the Mannheim National Theatre, the New Linz Music Theatre, to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and to the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

He portrayed TEBALDO in “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” at the Lucerne Theatre in 2023/24. In 2022 he was TOM RAKEWELL in a new production of “The Rake’s Progress” at the Mainz State Theatre. Before, Daniel Jenz was a member of the ensembles of the Hildesheim City Theatre, the Lübeck Theatre and the Kassel State Theatre.  At these houses, he performed a wide repertoire including the BARON KRONTHAL im “Wildschütz”, TOM RAKEWELL in “The Rake's Progress”, FENTON in “Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor”, WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE in “Tannhäuser”, the DANCING MASTER in “Ariadne auf Naxos” and  TAMINO in “Die Zauberflöte”. His interpretation of seven parts in the rarely played “Christophe Colomb” by Darius Milhaud at the Lübeck Theatre in  2019 met with approval nationwide. 

Daniel was born in  Esslingen a.N. . He studied at the academies of Graz and Mainz and was a member of the Young Ensemble of the Mainz State Theatre. 

The German tenor is a Prize Winner of the National Singing Competition 2006 and was awarded the Fran-Völer-Prize for Young Talents in 2009.

Moreover, he is a scholarship holder of the Hanser-Strecker-Foundation, the Richard-Wagner-Scholarship Foundation , The Foundation of Mainz Theatre Culture and Prizewinner of the Rotary Music Competition Wiesbaden. 

Daniel Jenz works with such renowned  conductors and producers as Philippe Jordan, Bertrand de Billy, Franz Welser-Möst, Axel Kober, Marco Armiliato, René Jacobs, Sylvain Cambreling, Dennis Russell Davies, Alexander Soddy und Thomas Guggeis, Calixto Bieito or Kirill Serebrennikow.

Additionally to his opera appearances, the tenor sings numerous concerts including works by Bach, Händel, Dvořák, Haydn, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Monteverdi, Mozart, Rossini just to name a few. 

At the 2019 Lehár-Festival Bad Ischl 2019 he portrayed MAXIME DE LA VALLÉ in the operetta “Clo-Clo” by Franz Lehár.  This rediscovery of the Operetta-Boulevard  was awarded by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation Classical Music  with the “Frog of the Month '' and was released on CD on the occasion of Franz Léhar’s 150th anniversary.  In 2024 a CD release of the  recording “Parsifal” at the Vienna State Opera  is planned.