Soloist

Daniel Gutmann

The Austrian baritone Daniel Gutmann completed his musical education in Herzogenburg, St. Pölten and Vienna. He studied singing with Julia Bauer-Huppmann and concert guitar with Melitta Heinzmann at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. While still a student, he sang roles such as Figaro (»Le nozze di Figaro«), Leporello (»Don Giovanni«) und Toante (»Oreste«) at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn in Vienna, as well as Demetrius (»A Midsummer Night’s Dream«) and the title role in »Don Giovanni« on studio and off-stage.

Other engagements have taken him to the Salzburg Festival (»Der Prozess«), the Vienna Konzerthaus (»Mass«), the Kurtheater Baden near Zurich (Dr. Falke in »Die Fledermaus«), the Rigiblick Theatre in Zurich (Dromio E. in »Gli Equivoci«) and the Stadttheater Baden (»Die Kaiserin«). In the field of children’s opera, he interpreted Buonafede (»Il mondo della luna«) at the jOPERA festival in Burgenland and was a member for one season of the music theatre »Animato«, which offers opera workshops for children in Austria and Germany (»Don Giovanni« and »Die Kluge«).

In addition, Daniel Gutmann regularly devotes himself to concert and lieder singing. Having grown up with choral music at a young age, he began a solo career early on. Recitals and concert tours have taken him to New York, Singapore, Washington D. C., Texas, Austria and Germany. An annual fixture is the classical music festival »Kulturfest Traisental« at Walpersdorf Castle in Lower Austria. He has been a regular guest on Bavarian television since 2021 with operetta parts and Viennese songs.

He is a prize winner of several national and international singing competitions, such as Elīna Garanča’s »ZukunftsStimmen«, the Petyrek-Lang song competition and »Iuventus Canti«. He also holds a degree in sports science from the University of Vienna and trained as a competitive decathlon athlete at the Vienna DDSG athletics club during his studies. He also performs regularly as manager, frontman and songwriter with his country band »The Groovecake Factory«, with which he has already won numerous awards at home and abroad.

Since 2019, Daniel Gutmann has been an ensemble member of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where he has performed roles including Dandini (»La Cenerentola«), Papageno (»Die Zauberflöte«), Josef (»Wiener Blut«), Schaunard (»La bohème«) and Freddy (»My Fair Lady«).