Daniel Schliewa was born in Hamburg. His musical education started at a very young age in the children’s choir of the Hamburg State Opera. He subsequently studied singing at the Music University in Lübeck, Northern Germany, and took part in master classes with Harald Stamm, Michaela Schuster, Iris Vermillion and Stefan Vinke. He was a member of the opera studio Lübeck during the 2020/21 season. Until 2023/24 he was part of the ensemble of the Theatre Vorpommern, where he was heard as Alfredo in La traviata (Verdi), Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten) and Oronte in Alcina (Handel).

He sang Loge in Das Rheingold (Wagner) at Kammeroper Hamburg, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) at Musikhochschule Lübeck, Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia (Britten) at Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Waldmeister (J. Strauss) in Sofia, My Fair Lady (Loewe) in Detmold and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner) in Bremen. Recent and future contracts until 2026/27 include State Opera Hamburg with Les contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach) and as 1st Geharnischter in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence as Brighella in Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss), Lübeck with Die Gespenstersonate (Reimann), Helgoland Festival as Erik in Der fliegende Holländer (Wagner), Wertinger Festival as Danilo in Die lustige Witwe (Lehár), 1st Fremde, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss), Max in Der Freischütz (Weber) and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Regensburg with Valuschka (Eötvös) and Candide (Bernstein), Plauen Zwickau as Hoffmann in Les contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach), Gärtnerplatztheater Munich as Graf Almaviva in Der tollste Tag, Mainz as Byron in Chronoplan and Hagen as Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni), Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss), Albert Gregor in The Makropulos Case (Janáček), Erik in Der fliegende Holländer (Wagner) and Macduff in Macbeth (Verdi).

He has worked with conductors such as Daniele Gatti, Kent Nagano, Markus Poschner, Simone Young, Alexander Soddy, Christoph Eschenbach, Eric Whitacre, Rolf Beck, Sir Jeffrey Tate, Dario Salvi, Kaspars Putnins and Stefan Vladar. Daniel Schliewa has appeared with orchestras such as Orchestra del Festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Hamburg Symphony and Hamburg Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Schleswig-Holstein-Musik-Festival, Lübeck Philharmonic and Sofia Philharmonic.