Florian Götz initially studied school music and trumpet in Stuttgart before studying singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Paula Anglin and Mark Packwood, from which he graduated with honours. This was followed by further studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar with Michael Rhodes, Mario Hoff and Ulrike Fuhrmann as well as masterclasses with Gregory Lamar, Kurt Widmer, Malcom Martineau, Brigitte Fassbaender, Claudia Eder, Christian Curnyn, Sarah Walker and Graham Johnson. The young baritone has been coached by Margreet Honig since 2013.

Florian Götz is a prizewinner of the International Chamber Opera Competition Schloss Rheinsberg and a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association.

In the 2009/2010 season, he was a member of the Thuringian Opera Studio and, in addition to his first roles at the Erfurt Theatre, he also appeared at the German National Theatre in Weimar, the Meiningen State Theatre, the Eisenach Theatre and the Nordhausen Theatre.

From 2010 to 2013, Florian Götz was a member of the ensemble at Erfurt Theatre. His roles have included Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Schaunard in La Bohème, Falke in Die Fledermaus, Jupiter in Orpheus in der Unterwelt and Ottokar and Kilian in Der Freischütz. Ekkehard Pluta wrote about the latter role in Opernwelt: ‘…A discovery was the young baritone Florian Götz, who clearly enhanced the part of Kilian with his striking material and strong stage presence.’

He also performed the role of Taylor in the world premiere of Johanna Doderer’s opera Der leuchtende Fluss and appeared as Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte as part of the Erfurt Cathedral Festival. His roles in the 2012/2013 season in Erfurt include the male lead in Hugo Wolf’s Der Corregidor, Dancaïre and Morales in Carmen, Ping in Turandot, Ivan Zupan in Tchaikovsky’s Čarodejka (The Sorceress) and the role of Mr Parker in the world premiere of Alois Bröder’s Die Frauen der Toten.Florian Götz has been working freelance since summer 2013.

Guest engagements have taken the young baritone to the Staatstheater Darmstadt and to festivals such as the Glyndebourne Festival, the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, the Göttingen Handel Festival, the Heidenheim Opera Festival, the Herrenhausen Festival in Hanover, the Bayreuth Baroque Festival and the Franconian Summer Festival.

Florian Götz made guest appearances with the Lautten Compagney Berlin under Wolfgang Katschner in Alessandro Scarlatti’s Penelope la casta at the Rheingau Music Festival and at the WDR in Cologne, where a CD recording of this work was made for Sony/BMG.He was heard again as Argante in Handel’s Rinaldo at the Rheingau Music Festival and at the Handel Festival in Halle.In the 2012/2013 season, he sang the role of Artabano in Giovanni Maria Pagliardi’s Caligula delirante with the ensemble Le Poème Harmonique under Vincent Dumestre on a tour of France, which took him to the opera houses in Rouen and Reims, the Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris and the Opéra National de Paris Bastille, among others, with further performances in France in the 2013/2014 season.

His oratorio and concert repertoire includes the central works of Bach, Haydn and Mendelssohn as well as rarely heard works of baroque and early music. Florian Götz is a regular guest at the Magdeburg Telemann Festival and has taken part in numerous CD and radio recordings there.In 2013, he sang Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Prinzregententheater in Munich and performed Bach’s St John Passion with the Ricercar Consort under Philippe Pierlot at the Thüringer Bachwochen.Under the direction of Michael Sanderling, Florian Götz sang songs from Gustav Mahler’s collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn at venues including the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Frauenkriche Dresden.

He was heard as Testo in Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda under the baton of Konrad Junghänel.

In the 2013/2014 season, Florian Götz appeared as Dandini in the new production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola, as Dancaïre in Carmen and as Perchik in Anatevka at the Erfurt Theatre.With the Berlin Lautten Compagney under Wolfgang Katschner, he sang the role of Mago in Handel’s Rinaldo at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, in The Hague and at the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe, as well as the role of Argante in Rinaldo at the Ludwigsburg Festival (a DVD of the performance was released on the Arthaus Musik label) and in Switzerland. Under the direction of Jean-Claude Malgoire, Florian Götz appeared in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia in Tourcoing in northern France and at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris.In September 2014, he took on the role of Guglielmo in a highly acclaimed production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart; this production has since been shown at the Radialsystem in Berlin and will be performed again at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart in spring 2015.

Florian Götz made his concert debut in New York in October 2014 with Le Poème Harmonique under Vincent Dumestre, and made his debut at Leipzig Opera in 2014/2015 as Papageno in Papageno und die Zauberflöte. In December, Florian Götz performed Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Bavarian Philharmonic Orchestra Munich in the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche in Munich and also sang this work with the Würzburg Cathedral Boys’ Choir in Würzburg Cathedral.

In May 2015, the baritone made a guest appearance with the Ricercar Consort under Philippe Pierlot as Pan in Bach’s Der Streit zwischen Phoebus und Pan in Taipei on a tour of Taiwan.In June 2015, Florian Götz appeared at the Mozartfest Würzburg and at the Goethe Theatre Bad Lauchstätt as Papageno in performances of Die Zauberflöte with the Lautten Compagney and made a guest appearance at the Philharmonie München with Orff’s Carmina Burana.

His engagements in the 2015/2016 season include his debut as Ping in a new production of Puccini’s Turandot at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck and as Schaunard in La Bohème at the Heidenheim Opera Festival. The baritone will also add Brahms’ Vier ernste Gesänge to his concert repertoire and will once again perform Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Philharmonie München.