Albert Dohmen has built an international career, beginning with his acclaimed Wozzeck at the Salzburg Festivals with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado. He has since worked with major conductors including Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Christian Thielemann, Lorin Maazel and Kurt Masur.
He has performed leading dramatic baritone roles such as Kurwenal, Pizarro, Amfortas, the Dutchman, Scarpia, Bluebeard and Hans Sachs at major houses including the Opéra National de Paris, Royal Opera House London, Bayerische Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Dutch National Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, LA Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.
A leading interpreter of Wagner, he has sung Wotan, Wanderer, Alberich, Hagen and König Marke in complete Ring cycles across Europe and at Bayreuth. His repertoire also includes Barak, Orest, Falstaff, Kaspar and Commendatore.
On the concert stage he has performed works from Bach to Schoenberg with major orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic and Munich Philharmonic, including Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler and Shostakovich under conductors like Kurt Masur, Gergiev and James Levine.
In 2025/26 he appears in Parsifal at the Opera Vlaanderen and the Semperoper Dresden, Der fliegende Holländer at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, and Oedipus Rex at the Salzburg Festival.
He made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 1990/91 season with a concert of the Liceu Chorus, and has since returned on numerous occasions, most recently in Das Rheingold (2012/13), Die Walküre (2013/14), Siegfried (2014/15), Der fliegende Holländer (2016/17), Tristan und Isolde (2017/18), and Myth and Tragedy of Electra and Oedipus (2021/22).