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Avantasia; RockFels 2016 – Loreley

This is a list of the members of German supergroup rock opera project Avantasia.

## Ghostlights members

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* Tobias Sammet
* Lead vocals (2001–present)
* Bass guitar (2007–present)
* Keyboards (2001–2002)
* Sascha Paeth
* Guitars (2007–present)
* Producer (2007–present)
* Felix Bohnke
* Drums (2010, 2015–present)
* Miro
* Keyboards (2007–present)
* Orchestration (2007–present)

## The Mystery of Time members

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* Tobias Sammet
* Lead vocals (2001–present)
* Bass guitar (2007–present)
* Keyboards (2001–2002)
* Sascha Paeth
* Guitars (2007–present)
* Producer (2007–present)
* Russell Gilbrook
* Drums (2013–present)
* Miro
* Keyboards (2007–present)
* Orchestration (2007–present)

## The Wicked Trilogy members

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* Tobias Sammet
* Lead vocals (2001–present)
* Bass guitar (2007–present)
* Keyboards (2001–2002)
* Sascha Paeth
* Guitars (2007–present)
* Producer (2007–present)
* Eric Singer
* Drums (2002, 2007–2010)
* Vocals (2007)
* Miro
* Keyboards (2007–present)
* Orchestration (2007–present)

## The Metal Opera members

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* Tobias Sammet
* Lead vocals (2001–present)
* Keyboards (2001–2002)
* Henjo Richter
* Guitars (2001–2002, 2007–2010)
* Markus Grosskopf
* Bass guitar (2001–2002)
* Alex Holzwarth
* Drums (2001–2002, 2010)

## The Scarecrow World Tour (2008)

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* Tobias Sammet – vocals
* Andre Matos – vocals
* Jørn Lande – vocals
* Kai Hansen – vocals (only shows in Europe)
* Bob Catley – vocals (only shows in Europe and Asia)
* Oliver Hartmann – vocals & guitars
* Amanda Somerville – vocals & backing vocals
* Cloudy Yang – backing vocals
* Sascha Paeth – guitars
* Robert Hunecke-Rizzo – bass
* Miro – keyboards
* Felix Bohnke – drums

## The Metal Opera Comes to Town Tour (2010)

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* Tobias Sammet – vocals
* Michael Kiske – vocals
* Jørn Lande – vocals
* Bob Catley – vocals
* Kai Hansen – vocals & guitars
* Oliver Hartmann – vocals & guitars
* Amanda Somerville – vocals
* Sascha Paeth – guitars
* Miro – keyboards
* Robert Hunecke-Rizzo – bass
* Felix Bohnke – drums

## The Mystery World Tour (2013)

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* Tobias Sammet – vocals
* Michael Kiske – vocals
* Bob Catley – vocals
* Ronnie Atkins – vocals (only shows in Europe and Japan)
* Eric Martin – vocals
* Thomas Rettke – vocals, backing vocals
* Oliver Hartmann – vocals, backing vocals, guitars
* Amanda Somerville – vocals, backing vocals
* Sascha Paeth – guitars, backing vocals
* Miro – keyboards, backing vocals
* Andre Neygenfind – bass, backing vocals
* Felix Bohnke – drums

## Ghostlights World Tour (2016)

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* Tobias Sammet – vocals
* Michael Kiske – vocals
* Jørn Lande – vocals
* Bob Catley – vocals (only shows in Europe and Asia)
* Ronnie Atkins – vocals
* Eric Martin – vocals
* Herbie Langhans – vocals, backing vocals
* Oliver Hartmann – vocals, backing vocals, guitars
* Amanda Somerville – vocals, backing vocals
* Sascha Paeth – guitars, backing vocals
* Miro – keyboards, backing vocals
* Andre Neygenfind – bass, backing vocals
* Felix Bohnke – drums

## Moonglow World Tour (2019)

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* Tobias Sammet – vocals
* Jørn Lande – vocals
* Bob Catley – vocals
* Ronnie Atkins – vocals
* Eric Martin – vocals
* Geoff Tate – vocals
* Herbie Langhans – vocals, backing vocals
* Adrienne Cowan – vocals, backing vocals
* Ina Morgan – backing vocals
* Oliver Hartmann – vocals, backing vocals, guitars
* Sascha Paeth – guitars, backing vocals
* Miro – keyboards, backing vocals
* Andre Neygenfind – bass, backing vocals
* Felix Bohnke – drums

## Moonflower World Tour (2022)

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* Tobias Sammet – vocals
* Jørn Lande – vocals
* Bob Catley – vocals
* Ronnie Atkins – vocals
* Eric Martin – vocals
* Ralf Scheepers – vocals
* Herbie Langhans [de] – vocals, backing vocals
* Adrienne Cowan – vocals, backing vocals
* Ina Morgan – backing vocals
* Oliver Hartmann – vocals, backing vocals, guitars
* Sascha Paeth – guitars, backing vocals
* Miro – keyboards, backing vocals
* Andre Neygenfind – bass, backing vocals
* Felix Bohnke – drums

## Here be Dragons Tour (2025)

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* Tobias Sammet – vocals
* Tommy Karevik – vocals
* Ronnie Atkins – vocals
* Kenny Leckremo – vocals
* Eric Martin – vocals
* Herbie Langhans [de] – vocals, backing vocals
* Adrienne Cowan – vocals, backing vocals
* Chiara Tricarico – vocals, backing vocals

## Vocalists

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Vocalist  | Associated bands  | Avantasia | The Metal Opera | The Metal Opera Part II | Lost in Space Part I | Lost in Space Part II | The Scarecrow | The Wicked Symphony | Angel of Babylon | The Mystery of Time | Ghostlights | Moonglow | A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society

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Tobias Sammet | Edguy | all tracks  | all tracks, except track 4 (Malleus Maleficarum)  | all tracks  | all tracks  | all tracks  | all tracks  | all tracks  | all tracks, except track 8 (Symphony of Life)  | all tracks  | all tracks  | all tracks  | all tracks
Michael Kiske | Helloween, Place Vendome, Kiske/Somerville, Unisonic | Reach Out for the Light  | Reach Out for the Light, Breaking Away, Farewell, Avantasia, The Tower  | The Seven Angels, No Return  |  | Promised Land  | The Scarecrow, Shelter from the Rain, What Kind of Love  | Wastelands, Runaway Train  | Stargazers  | Where Clock Hands Freeze, Savior in the Clockwork, Dweller in a Dream  | Ghostlights, Unchain the Light, Wake up to the Moon  | Requiem for a Dream  | The Inmost Light, Arabesque
David DeFeis | Virgin Steele | Final Sacrifice  | Serpents in Paradise, The Tower  | The Seven Angels, The Final Sacrifice  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Andre Matos | ex-Shaman, ex-Angra, ex-Viper, ex-Symfonia |  | Inside, Sign of the Cross, The Tower  | The Seven Angels, No Return, Chalice of Agony  |  |  |  |  | Blizzard On a Broken Mirror  |  |  |  |
Ralf Zdiarstek  |  |  | Malleus Maleficarum, The Glory of Rome  | Memory  |  |  |  | Black Wings  |  |  |  |  |
Oliver Hartmann | ex-At Vance |  | The Glory of Rome, Sign of the Cross, The Tower  | The Seven Angels  |  |  | I Don't Believe in Your Love  |  | Stargazers  |  |  |  |
Kai Hansen | Helloween, Gamma Ray, Unisonic |  | Inside, Sign of the Cross  | The Seven Angels, Chalice of Agony  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Rob Rock | ex-Axel Rudi Pell, ex-Warrior, Driver, Impellitteri |  | The Glory of Rome  | The Seven Angels, Neverland  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Sharon den Adel | Within Temptation |  | Farewell  | Into the Unknown  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Isle of Evermore  |  |
Timo Tolkki | ex-Stratovarius, ex-Revolution Renaissance, ex-Symfonia |  | The Tower  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Bob Catley | Magnum, ex-Hard Rain |  |  | The Looking Glass, In Quest for  | The Story Ain't Over  |  | Shelter from the Rain, Cry Just a Little  | Runaway Train  | Journey to Arcadia  | The Great Mystery  | A Restless Heart and Obsidian Skies, Wake up to the Moon  | Lavender  | The Moonflower Society
Jørn Lande | ex-Ark, ex-Masterplan, lead singer of Jorn |  |  |  | Another Angel Down  | Promised Land  | The Scarecrow, Another Angel Down, Devil in the Belfry  | The Wicked Symphony, Runaway Train, Crestfallen, Forever is a Long Time  | Stargazers, Angel of Babylon, Rat Race, Down in the Dark, Alone I Remember, Promised Land  |  | Let the Storm Descend Upon You, Ghostlights, Lucifer, Wake up to the Moon  | Book of Shallows, The Raven Child, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn  | I Tame the Storm, Arabesque
Amanda Somerville | Aina, Kiske/Somerville, Trillium |  |  |  | Lost in Space, The Story Ain't Over  | Lost in Space, Lost in Space  | What Kind of Love, Lost in Space  |  |  |  |  |  |
Eric Singer | Kiss, ex-Black Sabbath, ex-Alice Cooper |  |  |  | Ride the Sky  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Roy Khan | ex-Conception, ex-Kamelot |  |  |  |  |  | Twisted Mind  |  |  |  |  |  |
Alice Cooper |  |  |  |  |  |  | The Toy Master  |  |  |  |  |
Russell Allen | Symphony X, Adrenaline Mob |  |  |  |  |  |  | The Wicked Symphony, States of Matter  | Stargazers, Journey to Arcadia  |  |  |  |
Tim "Ripper" Owens | ex-Judas Priest, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen, ex-Iced Earth |  |  |  |  |  |  | Scales of Justice  |  |  |  |  |
Klaus Meine | Scorpions |  |  |  |  |  |  | Dying for an Angel  |  |  |  |  |
Cloudy Yang  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Symphony of Life  | Sleepwalking  |  |  |
Jon Oliva | Savatage, Jon Oliva's Pain |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Death is Just a Feeling  |  |  |  |
Joe Lynn Turner | ex-Rainbow, ex-Deep Purple, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Spectres, The Watchmakers' Dream, Savior in the Clockwork, The Great Mystery  |  |  |
Biff Byford | Saxon |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Black Orchid, Savior in the Clockwork, The Great Mystery  |  |  |
Ronnie Atkins | Pretty Maids |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Invoke The Machine  | Let the Storm Descend Upon You, Unchain the Light, Wake up to the Moon  | Book of Shallows, Starlight, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn  | Paper Plane
Eric Martin | Mr. Big |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | What's Left Of Me  |  | The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Maniac  | Rhyme and Reason
Robert Mason  | Warrant, Lynch Mob |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Let the Storm Descend Upon You, Babylon Vampyres, Wake up to the Moon  |  |
Dee Snider | Twisted Sister |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | The Haunting  |  |
Herbie Langhans  | Seventh Avenue |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Draconian Love  |  |
Marko Hietala | Nightwish, Tarot, Northern Kings, Raskasta Joulua, Sapattivuosi, Sinergy |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Master of the Pendulum  |  |
Geoff Tate | Operation: Mindcrime, ex-Queensrÿche |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Seduction of Decay  | Invincible, Alchemy, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn  | Scars
Candice Night | Blackmore's Night |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Moonglow  |
Hansi Kürsch | Blind Guardian, Demons & Wizards |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Book of Shallows, The Raven Child  |
Mille Petrozza | Kreator, ex-Voodoocult |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Book of Shallows  |
Floor Jansen | Nightwish, Northward, Star One, ex-After Forever, ex-ReVamp |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Kill the Pain Away, Misplaced Among the Angels
Ralf Scheepers | Primal Fear |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | The Wicked Rule the Night

## Musicians

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Musician  | Associated bands  | Avantasia | The Metal Opera | The Metal Opera Part II | Lost in Space Part I | Lost in Space Part II | The Scarecrow | The Wicked Symphony | Angel of Babylon | The Mystery of Time | Ghostlights | Moonglow | A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society

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Tobias Sammet | Edguy | Keyboards (all)  | Keyboards (all)  | Keyboards (all)
Bass (10)  | Bass (all)  | Bass (all)  | Bass (all)  | Bass (all)  | Bass (all)  | Bass (all)  | Bass (all)  | Bass (all)  | Keyboards, bass (all)
Henjo Richter | Gamma Ray | Guitars (all)  | Guitars (all)  | Guitars (all)  | Lead guitar (3)  | Lead guitar (2, 3, 4)  | Lead guitar (2, 3, 6, 7, 8)  |  | Lead guitar (10)  |  |  |  |
Markus Grosskopf | Helloween | Bass (all)  | Bass (all)  | Bass (all)  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Alex Holzwarth | Rhapsody of Fire, ex-Angra | Drums (all)  | Drums (all)  | Drums (all)  |  |  |  | Drums (3, 7, 8, 10)  | Drums (1, 2, 3, 11)  |  |  |  |
Jens Ludwig | Edguy |  | Lead guitar (12, 13)  | Lead guitar (5, 9)  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Timo Tolkki | ex-Stratovarius, ex-Revolution Renaissance, ex-Symfonia |  |  | Lead guitar (1, 10)  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Norman Meiritz  |  |  | Acoustic guitar (6)  | Rhythm guitar (10)  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Frank Tischer  |  |  | Piano (11)  | Piano (1, 4, 7)  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Sascha Paeth | ex-Heavens Gate, Aina |  |  |  | Guitars (all)  | Guitars (all)  | Guitars (all)  | Guitars (all)  | Guitars (all)  | Guitars (all)  | Guitars (all)  | Guitars (all)  | Guitars, bass (all)
Eric Singer | KISS, ex-Black Sabbath, ex-Alice Cooper |  |  | Drums (10)  | Drums (all)  | Drums (all)  | Drums (all)  | Drums (2, 4, 6)  | Drums (5, 7, 9, 10)  |  |  |  |
Michael "Miro" Rodenberg | Aina, Kamelot |  |  |  | Keyboards (all)  | Keyboards (all)  | Keyboards (all)  | Keyboards (all)  | Keyboards (all except track 2)  | Keyboards (all)  | Keyboards (all)  | Keyboards (all)  | Keyboards (5, 11)
Kai Hansen | Helloween, Gamma Ray, Unisonic, ex-Iron Savior |  |  |  |  |  | Lead guitar (3)  |  |  |  |  |  |
Rudolf Schenker | Scorpions |  |  |  |  |  | Lead guitar (10)  |  |  |  |  |  |
Bruce Kulick | ex-Kiss, Grand Funk Railroad |  |  |  |  |  |  | Lead guitar (6, 11)  | Lead guitar (5, 9, 11)  | Lead guitar (3, 6, 10)  | Lead guitar (9, 10, 12)  |  |
Oliver Hartmann | ex-At Vance |  |  |  |  |  |  | Lead guitar (2, 8)  | Lead guitar (1, 2, 3)  | Lead guitar (4, 7)  | Lead guitar (2, 5, 9, 11)  | Lead guitar (4)  | Lead guitar (4)
Felix Bohnke | Edguy |  |  |  |  |  |  | Drums (1, 5, 9, 11)  | Drums (4, 6, 8)  |  | Drums (all)  | Drums (all)  | Drums (all)
Jens Johansson | Stratovarius, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Keyboards (2)  |  |  |  |
Eddy Wrapiprou  | Edguy |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Keyboards (all)  |  |  |  |
Simon Oberender  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Organ (11)  | Organ (9)  |  |  |  |
Russell Gilbrook | Uriah Heep |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Drums (all)  |  |  |
Arjen Anthony Lucassen | Ayreon, Star One, Guilt Machine, Ambeon, ex-Stream of Passion, ex-Vengeance, ex-Bodine |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Lead guitar (2)  |  |  |
Ferdy Doernberg  | Axel Rudi Pell |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Hammond Organ (2)  |  |  |

## References

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Tobias Sammet's Avantasia

* Sascha Paeth
* Miro
* Felix Bohnke

* Henjo Richter
* Markus Grosskopf
* Alex Holzwarth
* Eric Singer
* Russell Gilbrook

Studio albums|

* The Metal Opera - Part I
* The Metal Opera - Part II
* The Scarecrow
* The Wicked Symphony
* Angel of Babylon
* The Mystery of Time
* Ghostlights
* Moonglow
* A Paranormal Evening with the Moonflower Society

Live albums|

* The Flying Opera

EPs and singles|

* Avantasia
* Lost in Space Part I
* Lost in Space Part II
* "Mystery of a Blood Red Rose"

Compilations|

* The Metal Opera: Pt 1 & 2 – Gold Edition
* Lost in Space Part I & II

Related articles|

* Band members
* Discography
* Edguy
* Elected

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