Matthias Hölle has been one of the leading basses of the international music scene since one decade. Born in Rottweil/Neckar (Germany) he first studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart and later on at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. He became a member of the Opera House in Cologne until 1987 and has got since that year an engagement at the Staatstheater Stuttgart.
Pretty soon his carreer led him to all big opera and concert houses of Europe. In the recent years he also appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in Chicago (Lyric Opera and Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Houston, Washington, Tel Aviv (there also with first nights of compositions of Karlheinz Stockhausen), at the Festivals at Ludwigsburg, Salzburg, the Maggio Musicale di Firenze. Specialized on Wagner one could hear Matthias Hölle interpreting the Wagner operas almost all over the world and since 1981 he had been a constant guest at the Bayreuth Festival.
Matthias Hölle has worked with many famous conductors such like James Levine, Daniel Barenboim, Sergiu Celibidache, Marek Janowski, Sir Neville Marriner, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Horst Stein, Gustav Kuhn, Claus Peter Flor, Riccardo Cailly and Christian Thielemann. He studied his roles with directors such as Michael Hampe, Harry Kupfer, August Everding, Sir Peter Hall, Götz Friedrich, Willy Decker, Hans-Peter Lehmann, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Luca Ronconi, Jean-Claude Riber.
His artistic carreer has been completed by numerous concerts and concert tours, as well as radio and TV-broadcast and video productions (e.g. the Ring by Harry Kupfer and Tristan by Heiner Müller at the Bayreuth Festival).
Recordings with the artist have made among other of Parsifal (Daniel Barenboim/ Teldec), Freischütz (Marek Janowski / BMG), Fidelio (Sir Colin Davies / BMG) and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy`s Erste Walpurgisnacht (Claus Peter Flor / BMG).
In summer 1998 Matthias Hölle has been announced “Kammersänger” of the Staatstheater Stuttgart and has been furthermore awarded with several prizes, e.g. the Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize of the “Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz”.