David Steffens received his education at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg. He had his debut at the Salzburger Landestheater as Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro, was then engaged at the Internationales Opernstudio at the Opernhaus Zürich and could be heard in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in the context of the Young Singers Project of the Salzburger Festspiele. From 2012 to 2014, Steffens was an ensemble member of the Stadttheater Klagenfurt.

Since 2015/16, Steffens has been an ensemble member at the Stuttgarter Staatsoper, where he could be heard in a variety of different roles. Apart from this occupation in Stuttgart, he regularly performs on other stages as well, including at the Salzburger Mozartwoche, the Semperoper Dresden, Teatro Real, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Opéra National de Lyon as well as the Dutch National Opera.

In recent years, he had several house and role debuts, such as his role debut at the Staatstheater Meiningen as Wotan in a new production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold. Steffens will continue his series of debuts in the current season, for example with his first performance as Hans Sachs in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Furthermore, he will perform in Beethoven’s »Missa Solemnis« under Kirill Petrenko for the first time with the Berliner Philharmoniker and at the Salzburger Osterfestspiele, or with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the first time in Haydn’s »Die Schöpfung« under Philippe Jordan.

As a sought-after concert singer, David Steffens could be heard in the Wiener Musikverein, Pierre Boulez Saal, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid as well as the NHK Hall Tokio and performed art songs at the Schubertiade Hohenems, the Internationale Hugo-Wolf-Akademie Stuttgart and the Wiener Konzerthaus. He has worked with well-known conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Thomas Guggeis, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano and Sir Simon Rattle.­