Soloist

Franz Wyzner

Franz Wyzner was born in Vienna and studied singing with Professor Marthold. His stage career began in 1957 at the Vienna Chamber Opera. In 1958 he moved to Landestheater Salzburg for his first permanent engagement. Further stations were the Opera House in Gelsenkirchen, Wuppertal Theatre and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz whose ensemble he belonged to from 1986 to 1997 and where he was appointed Bavarian Chamber Actor.

Guest appearances took Franz Wyzner to Vienna where he sang Papageno (»Die Zauberflöte«) at Vienna State Opera and to Vienna Volksoper where he sang Figaro (»Le nozze di Figaro«), to the Wiener Festwochen as well as to the Salzburg Festival in 1983 and 1984 and as Alberich (»Siegfried«) to Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

In »Gräfin Mariza« he could be seen in Josef E. Köpplinger's stage production in Munich, Klagenfurt and Graz. In Klagenfurt he had his first acting experience as the inn keeper in »Der Theatermacher«.

His roles at Gärtnerplatztheater have included, among others, Zsupán (»Der Zigeunerbaron«), Tevye (»Fiddler on the Roof«), Nasoni (»Gasparone«), Feri Básci and Fürst Lippert-Weylersheim (»Die Csárdásfürstin«), Josef Kuhbrodt (»Der Vetter aus Dingsda«) and recently the Kaiser (»Im weißen Rössl«), Herr Schultz (»Cabaret«), Onuphrie (»Der Bettelstudent«), Zirkusdirektor Stanislawski (»Die Zirkusprinzessin«) and Josef (»Die Zirkusprinzessin«).