Baritone Dietrich Henschel's career has encompassed the music of composers as diverse as Bach and Henze on stage and in concert and recital halls. He has had an international career focusing especially on art song and orchestral song. Henschel's voice teachers included Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and he has sometimes been regarded as his successor. Henschel made his professional debut at the 1990 Munich Biennale, appearing in Michèle Reverdy's opera Le Précepteur. In 2000, Henschel made his recording debut, performing Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795. In 2007, Henschel appeared on conductor William Christie's recording of Haydn's Die Schöpfung with Les Arts Florissants. Henschel appeared on a 2023 recording of Henze's opera Das Floß der Medusa. By that time, his recording catalog comprised some 90 items.