The baritone Joachim Goltz, born 1973 in Mannheim is a permanent member of the ensemble of the Nationaltheater in Mannheim since 2014. His roles include f.e. "Klingsor" in "Parsifal", "Pizarro" in "Fidelio", "Faninal" in "Rosenkavalier", "Golaud" in Debussy`s "Pelleas et Melisande" and "Jakob Lenz" in W. Rihms "Jakob Lenz".

He is going to be seen as "Alberich" and "Gunther" in "The Ring" at Theater Dortmund, as "Klingsor" in Wagner`s "Parsifal" at Deutsche Oper Berlin and Deutsche Oper am Rhein and as "Beckmesser" in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" at Theater Bonn.

Recent guest performances have led him to Teatro Real di Madrid as "Gunther" in Wagner`s "Götterdämmerung", as "Telramund" in "Lohengrin" to Dortmund and Nürnberg, as "Flying Dutchman" to Karlsruhe and Cologne and the principle opera house in Dresden (Semperoper), to the Nationaltheater Weimar, and to houses in St. Gallen (Switzerland), Hannover, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Darmstadt, Bonn, Heidelberg, Lübeck, Bremerhaven, and others.

Joachim Goltz sang in Austria, at the Brucknerfestival-Linz, and had his successful debut as "Telramund" at the Croatian National Opera in Zagreb. He also performed this role in Wiesbaden, Augsburg, Würzburg and at the Ljubljana Festival in Slovenia. After his "Pizarro" in 2020, he came back to the State Opera of Prague as "Flying Dutchman" in 2022 and as "Alberich" in Rheingold in 2026. This role he sang also in the first "Rheingold" in Singapur and in Daegu (South-Korea).

Joachim Goltz has an extensive repertoire which includes several Wagner-Roles, such as "Holländer", "Amfortas", "Klingsor", "Kurwenal", "Telramund" and "Heerrufer" as well as "Fra Melitone" in Verdi`s "La Forza del Destino" and "Faninal" in Strauss`Rosenkavalier.

He had the pleasure to work together with conductors as Dan Ettinger, Stefan Soltesz, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Gabriel Feltz, Marc Piollet, Cornelius Meister, Christian Thielemann, Alexander Soddy, Enrico Calesso, Erich Wächter und Pablo Heras-Casado.

Joachim Goltz is also celebrated for his roles in several operetta including "Eisenstein" in "Die Fledermaus", "Graf Danilo" in "Die Lustige Witwe", "Aristeus/Pluto" in "Orpheus in the Underworld" and as "Leopold" in "Im Weißen Rössl".

He equally proves his talents and versatility in concert as a frequent guest in the Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin. Here he had successful stage presence in, among others, his role as "Ratefreund" in Walter Braunfels` opera "Die Vögel" and in Joseph Martin Kraus` opera "Aeneas in Karthago", conducted by Lothar Zagrosek.

In 2025 Joachim Goltz has received a nomination for the famous theatre-price "Der Faust" for his "Beckmesser" in Wagners "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" at Oper Bonn.