Born in Dresden and now living in Freiburg, German-British bass-baritone Stephan Loges began his musical and singing career as a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor, where he received his first formative singing lessons from Karin Mitzscherling before studying singing at the HdK Berlin and with Rudolf Piernay at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. On the opera stage, he sang Count Le Nozze di Figaro at Opera North Leeds, Wolfram Tannhäuser and Papageno Die Zauberflöte at La Monnaie Opera House in Brussels, Count Capriccio at the Edinburgh Festival, Sprecher Die Zauberflöte at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Falke Die Fledermaus for Northern Ireland Opera, Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte for English Touring Opera and Theater Trier, and Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande in various productions in Tallinn, Lisbon, Trier, and for ETO. Stephan sang Sweeney Todd (title role) at the Staatstheater Hannover and created roles in the world premieres of James MacMillan's Parthenogenesis (ROH Covent Garden), Mark Grey's Frankenstein (La Monnaie), Anthony Bolton's The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko (Grange Park Opera) and Miroslav Srnka's Voice Killer (Theater an der Wien). He also sang Bégearss in Milhaud's La mère coupable at the Theater an der Wien and Moritz in Mernier's Frühlings Erwachen at the Opera National du Rhin. His repertoire also includes George Benjamin's Written on Skin, Britten's The Burning Fiery Furnace and Curlew River, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. He recently made his debut as Stárek in Jenůfa at Theater Freiburg, sang his first Verdi role as Oberto (title role) with Chelsea Opera Group, and his first Alberich in Siegfried in a concert performance by the London Opera Company. Stephan has extensive experience in the concert repertoire and has performed and recorded works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Elgar, and Britten with conductors such as Trevor Pinnock, Paul McCreesh, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniel Harding, Vladimir Jurowski, John Butt, Richard Egarr, Robin Ticciati, Olari Elts, Johanna Soller, and Justin Doyle. In addition to many renowned early music ensembles, he has performed with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Residentie Orkest, Staatskapelle Dresden, Northern Sinfonia, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony. In 1999, he won the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition (with Alexander Schmalcz on piano) and has since given recitals worldwide, including at Wigmore Hall London, Carnegie Hall New York, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wiener Konzerthaus, Klavierfestival Ruhr, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Vocal Arts Series Washington, and Oxford International Song Festival, with pianists such as Imogen Cooper, Graham Johnson, Eugene Asti, Simone Dinnerstein, Roger Vignoles, Christoph Berner, Marcelo Amaral, Simon Lepper, Joseph Middleton, and Sholto Kynoch. From 2013 to 2025, Stephan taught singing and song at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, where he was Associate Head of Vocal Studies from 2021 to 2023.