Born in Strasbourg, Damien Gastl completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in his home city, followed by further studies at the University of Music in Dresden and at the August Everding Theatre Academy in Munich, where he completed his Master's degree. In 2021, he received a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Circle in Strasbourg and was prize-winner at the international singing competition in Marmande. From 2020 to 2022, he was a member of the opera studio at the Opéra national du Rhin and performed on the stage of the Opéra national du Rhin in various productions.
Since then, his career has developed successfully on various opera and concert stages in Europe. He performed at the Opéra national du Rhin, the Opéra national du Capitole in Toulouse, the Opéra Grand Avignon, the Nordhausen Theatre, the Styriarte summer festival, the Nuits lyriques de Marmande festival, with the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse.
The 2026/27 season is highlighted by his debut at the Grand Théâtre de Genève (La Fanciulla del West) and his return to the Capitole de Toulouse (Le Roi Arthus).
September 2026
Born in Strasbourg, Damien Gastl was awarded a Bachelor-of-Arts-Diploma in his hometown before pursuing further studies at the Music University of Dresden (in the vocal-class of Christiane Junghanns and the Lied-class of Olaf Bär). He also holds a Master of Opera from the August-Everding-Theaterakademie in Munich (in the vocal-class of Christiane Iven). in 2021, he was awarded a scholarship by the Richard Wagner Circle in Strasbourg as well as prize-winner of the Concours International de Chant de Marmande (Prix OFQJ - Théâtre Lyrichoregra 20).
Damien Gastl made his stage-debut in 2014 performing the role of Pierrot in Gluck’s opera Merlin’s Island, a German-French co-production for the 250th anniversary of the Academy of fine arts in Dresden. Subsequently he appeared in Don Carlo (a Flemish deputy) as well as in various staged productions of the Dresden University (Simon in Treemonisha, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte). He also joined a concert-performance of L’Ancêtre by Saint-Saëns with the Munich Radio Orchestra at the Prinzregententheater.
In 2020 he performed the title-role in a semi-stagesdversion of Don Giovanni at Styriarte in Graz where he was reinvited in 2021 for a concert performance of Orff's Carmina Burana. From 2020 through 2022 he was a member of the Opera Studio of the Opéra national du Rhin and took part at the Opéra du Rhin in the productions of Samson et Dalila (Deuxième philistin), Madama Butterfly (Prince Yamadori) and L'Enfant et les sortilèges (L'horloge comtoise, Le chat).
In 2022, he sang the role of Frederic (Lakmé) at the Nuits Lyriques de Marmande festival. He subsequently appeared at the Opéra national du Rhin (Schreker's Der Schatzgräber) and made his debut at the Opéra national du Capitole de Toulouse (Melot in Tristan und Isolde). Since then, the Capitole has regularly engaged him: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro), Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro), and Die Zauberflöte (Papageno) in a small-sized touring production, as well as Weinberg's The Passenger and Carmen (Dancaïre) in complete version on the main stage. He has also performed at the Théâtre de Nordhausen (Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro), the Opéra du Rhin (Der Vater in Hänsel und Gretel), and the Opéra Grand Avignon (Das Lied von der Erde in a staged version).
The 2026/27 season is highlighted by his debut at the Grand Théâtre de Genève (La Fanciulla del West) and his return to the Capitole de Toulouse (Le Roi Arthus).
On concert-stage, Damien Gastl has recently sung Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (Petrus) with the Dresden Baroque-Orchestra, St. John’s Passion (Jesus) with the Batzdorf Hofkapelle and the Chamber-choir of the Dresden Vocal Academy, Elias with the Orchestra of the Elbland Philharmony Saxony, Beethoven's Symphony Nr. 9 in Stuttgart and Strasbourg as well as Mozart's Coronation Mass, Beethoven's Cantata on the death of Emperor Joseph II at Styriarte (Austria). He also performed Haydn's Nelson-Messe and Mozart's Great Mass in c-minor with the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse.
September 2026
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