Soloist

Hans Gröning

Hans Gröning received his vocal training with Gisela Schröter and made his debut as a prize winner of the international singing competition at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg. After his first and only permanent engagement at the Eisenach Theatre, he has been working as a freelance singer since 2004. One focus of his work is the interpretation of contemporary works. In 2006 he appeared in a Belgian production of Wolfgang Rihm’s »Jakob Lenz« at the Copenhagen Opera House, in Brussels, Rotterdam, Luxembourg and at the Opéra Bastille in Paris.

He was a frequent guest at the Komische Oper Berlin, where his roles included Farfarello in »The Love for Three Oranges« (director: Andreas Homoki), the part of Albany in Aribert Reimann’s »Lear« (director: Hans Neuenfels) and the Gypsy in Mussorgsky’s »The Fair at Sorochyntsi« (director: Barrie Kosky). Among the most important roles in his repertoire are Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, Paul Hindemith’s Cardillac, Telramund (»Lohengrin«) and Alberich (»Das Rheingold«). At the Staatstheater Nuremberg he embodied the title role in the new production of »Jakob Lenz« (director: Tilman Knabe). In 2020 followed the role of the Pirate King in Sullivan’s »The Pirates of Penzance« (director: Christian Brey), in 2023 General Bumm in »La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein« (director: Andreas Kriegenburg). He also made a guest appearance at the Nationaltheater Mannheim as Bartolo (»Il barbiere di Siviglia«) and made his role debut at the Theater Osnabrück in the title role in »Wallenstein« by Jaromir Weinberger.

Hans Gröning has been closely associated with the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz since 2013. His debut as Ollendorf (»Der Bettelstudent«) was followed by an engagement as Prince Ypsheim-Gindelbach (»Wiener Blut«) and, for the theatre’s reopening, the role of Baron Mirko Zeta in »Die lustige Witwe«. In Peter Konwitschny’s production of the Oscar Straus operetta »The Chocolate Soldier« he sang the part of Colonel Popoff. He also appeared in Munich as Bartolo in the new production of Rossini’s »Il barbiere di Siviglia« (director: Josef E. Köpplinger).