Further highlights include Ottone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea for Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater and his debut as Prince Go-Go in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre at Theater Bielefeld. Other notable role debuts include the title role in Giulio Cesare in Damiano Michieletto’s production at Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Mary Sunshine in Barrie Kosky’s production of Chicago at Komische Oper Berlin, and the Death Angel (Todesengel) as part of the original cast of Peter Plate and Ulf Leo Sommer’s hit German musical Romeo & Julia.
The 2026/27 season brings Wanderer’s debut at Komische Oper Berlin as Athamas in Barrie Kosky’s production of Semele under George Petrou and a return to the role of Oberon in Nadja Lodschky’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Theater Bielefeld under Robin Davis. On the concert stage, he reunites with Orchestre symphonique de Québec for an interdisciplinary concert featuring original arrangements of music by Monteverdi, Purcell, Brahms, Sting and Bronski Beat with electro-pop artist Frithjof Rödel and dancers performing choreography created by Wanderer himself. The season also marks his appointment as Artist in Residence with Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach, encompassing a series of performances across the season spanning an eclectic variety of repertoire from Baroque to Broadway and beyond.
Wanderer’s concert and oratorio repertoire spans more than four centuries, from Purcell, Vivaldi, the Bach family, Handel and Pergolesi through Berlioz, Wagner and Elgar to Bernstein and Cage. He has collaborated with conductors including Christian Thielemann, Kent Nagano, Jordi Savall, Christoph Rousset, David Bates, Clemens Schuldt andPatrick Lange. His concerts have been recorded for broadcast by the BBC, Bayerischer Rundfunk, SWR, Arte, Mezzo and Medici.tv.
Recent concert highlights include a performance at Brucknerhaus Linz with pianist Daniel Heide in ‘Wanderer Between the Worlds’, a programme spanning a wide range of genres, including his collaborative single “St. Petersburg”, and his debut performance with l’Orchestre Symphonique de Québec for his genre-defying programme, ‘L’expérience Nils Wanderer’, featuring music from Bach to Leonard Cohen.
