Soloist

David Sitka

David Sitka was a member of the Regensburger Domspatzen and later studied singing under Piotr Bednarski at Carl Maria von Weber College of Music in Dresden. He attended song classes with Olaf Bär and studied »Opera performance theory« with Andreas Schmidt and Andreas Scheibner. He made his opera debut in Bad Hersfeld in 2009 singing the part of Fenton in »Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor«. Further engagements followed, including ones at the Dresden Staatsschauspiel, the Chemnitz Theatre and the Landesbühnen Sachsen.

In 2012 he debuted as Tamino at Deutsche Oper am Rhein (»Kinderzauberflöte«) and Remendado (»Carmen«) as well as at Volksoper in Vienna (Fenton), whose ensemble he joined as of the 2012/2013 season. There he has been heard in, among other roles, the Fourth Jew (»Salome«), the Song Seller (»Der Mantel«), Fritz Steppke (»Frau Luna«), Ruiz (»Il trovatore«), Freddy (»My Fair Lady«), Pang (»Turandot«), Gastone (»La Traviata«) and in Cerha's »Onkel Präsident« as Josef Powolny.

Guest appearances have thus far taken him to the Bayerische Staatsoper as the Second Officer (»Die Soldaten«) as well as to Fribourg and Lausanne as Pedrillo (»Die Entführung aus dem Serail«).