Born in Dresden, baritone Sebastian Wartig began his voice training as a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor and received both his diploma and Master ‘s degree in vocal studies with honors from the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig. He studied with Kammersänger Professor Roland Schubert.
From 2008-2013, while still a student he appeared in roles such as Colas (Bastien and Bastienne), Sid (Albert Herring), Frank (Die Fledermaus), Marullo (Rigoletto), Peter/Father (Hansel and Gretel) and Papageno (The Magic Flute). He also gained experience as a concert soloist, performing various cantatas, passions, oratorios and masses.
In 2011, he won the Albert Lortzing Competition and also received the scholarship of the Ad Infinitum Foundation offered by the Friends of the HMT Leipzig. He won second place at the 16th International Robert Schumann Competition in 2012, and he became a semi-finalist in the international NEUE STIMMEN competition in 2013. In 2014, he won first prize in the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang in Berlin, and in 2015 he was awarded the Saxon State Opera Foundation´s prize, the renowned Semper Opera.
From 2013 to 2015, he became a member of the Junges Ensemble (The opera studio) of the Saxon State Opera in Dresden, after which he was asked to join the main Ensemble from 2015 until the present. His roles at the Semper Opera include: Count von Eberbach (Der Wildschütz), Doctor Falke (Die Fledermaus), Kilian and Ottokar (Der Freischütz), Kaiser Overall (Der Kaiser von Atlantis), Melisso (Alcina), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Mandarin (Turandot), Silvio (Pagliacci), Soldier (Doktor Faust, Busoni), Count Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro), Schaunard and Marcello (La bohème), Father/Hedgehog/Owl (Jakub Flügelbunt), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Momus (Platée) and concertante in a Pina Bausch dance opera production as Orestes (Iphigenia in Tauris), Moralès (Carmen), Marullo and Count Ceprano (Rigoletto), Melot (Tristan and Isolde), Boris (Moscow, Cheryomushki), Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Papageno (The Magic Flute), Commissioner (Nachtausgabe) and King (The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs).
He has appeared twice at the ZDF broadcast of the New Year’s Eve concert of the Staatskapelle Dresden, once in the role of Feri von Kerekes in Die Csárdásfürstin (conducted by Christian Thielemann) in 2014, and once as Doctor Falke in Die Fledermaus (conducted by Franz Welser-Möst) in 2018.
Aside from singing in Dresden, he sang in 2016 Frank-Fritz in Die tote Stadt at the Theater Basel; in 2017 Kuno in Der Freischütz at the Grafenegg Festival; and in 2019 he took on the role of Wolfram von Eschenbach (Tannhäuser) at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt; in June 2020 he made an appearance as Rodrigo (Don Carlo) in the Gala concerts at the Saxon State Opera in Dresden.