Franz-Josef Selig gives guest performances at all great opera houses worldwide, such as the Wiener Staatsoper, the Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Milan Scala, the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Opéra de la Bastille and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Théâtre de la Monnaie Bruxelles, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich. He sings the serious bass parts such as Sarastro, Komtur, Rocco, Osmin, Fasolt, Daland, Arkel and his most important roles, King Marke and Gurnemanz.

During the last season, he performed in London (Das Rheingold), Hamburg (Simon Boccanegra), Paris (Tannhäuser under Seiji Ozawa and Parsifal under Hartmut Haenchen) and Japan (Tristan und Isolde guest performance of the Opera de la Bastille). As a frequent guest at the Salzburg Festival, he appeared as Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro in 2006 and 2007 and returns this summer as Sarastro under Riccardo Muti.

For the 2008/09 season, Franz-Josef Selig holds opera engagements again in Paris (Fidelio and Tristan und Isolde), in Salzburg (Le Nozze di Figaro) and the Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona (Die Krönung der Poppea) as well as at the Metropolitan Opera New York (Das Rheingold), where he is also going to sing Fasolt in Wagner’s Ring production during the next seasons. At the end of 2009, the bass appears as King Marke at the Wiener Staatsoper with Sir Simon Rattle conducting.

Franz-Josef Selig also has worked on the concert stage with many renowned conductors, such as Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, Kent Nagano, Mariss Jansons, Herbert Blomstedt, Marek Janowski, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Helmuth Rilling, Philippe Herreweghe, Colin Davis, Jun Märkl, Daniel Harding and René Jacobs. Concerts in the 2008/09 season included performances with Esa-Pekka Salonen in London (Oedipus Rex) and Franz Welser-Möst (Mozart Requiem) at the Easter Festival Salzburg as well as Schumann’s Faust-Szenen at the Teatro Real in Madrid and a concert tour with the BR Symphony Orchestra and Mariss Jansons (Haydn Harmoniemesse). With the same orchestra, under the baton of Manfred Honeck, Franz-Josef Selig gave various concerts of Schmidt’s Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln in summer 2009.

Despite his worldwide concert and opera engagements Franz-Josef Selig finds time for recitals. A favourite project of the singer is the Liedertafel with Markus Schäfer, Christian Elsner and Michael Volle, as well as Gerold Huber as pianist. Of this quintet, a CD has been released at the label Orfeo. Concerts are scheduled for 2009 at the Wiener Musikverein and the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, amongst others. His affinity to Ancient Music can be seen in the cooperation with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the concentus musicus Wien, with Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs or the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

Numerous CD productions – from Bach’s St. Matthew Passion via Mozart’s Zauberflöte, Weber’s Abu Hassan and Busoni’s Turandot to the DG recording of Wagner’s Parsifal under Thielemann (Vienna, June 2005) – show Franz-Josef Selig’s broad artistic spectrum.