 His carefully chosen roles range from Wolfram ("Tannhäuser"), Amfortas ("Parsifal"), Kurwenal ("Tristan") and Orest ("Electra") right up to the title roles in Alban Berg's "Wozzeck", Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle", Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler" and Reimann's "Lear".From 2001 through 2005, Matthias Goerne taught as an honorary professor of song interpretation at the Robert Schumann Academy of Music in Düsseldorf.In 2001, he was appointed an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London.