Soloist

Mathias Hausmann

The Austrian baritone Mathias Hausmann completed his singing training in Graz, Vienna and at the Royal College of Music in London. He made his opera debut in 2000 at the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt under Adam Fischer. In 2002 he received a scholarship to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, as a result of which he was in 2002/2003 season a member of the National Opera Studio in London.

From 2005 to 2009 he was an ensemble member of the Vienna Volksoper. In 2008 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival and could be heard as Danilo (»Die lustige Witwe«) at La Scala in Milan to which he returned in succeeding years as Moralès (»Carmen«), Paris (»Roméo et Juliette«) and Guglielmo (»Così fan tutte«). He made guest appearances, inter alia, at the opera in Graz, at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, at Bunka Kaikan Hall in Tokyo, at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen, at Wigmore Hall in London, at Théatre des Champs Elysées in Paris, at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, the Bremen Theatre, the Grand Theatre de Genève as well as at philharmonic concert halls in Munich, Cologne, Essen, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Luxembourg as well as at Gewandhaus in Leipzig. He has additionally performed at the Edinburgh Festival, the London Handel Festival, the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, at the Vienna Festival and at Mörbisch Lake Festival concerts. In 2012 he made his debut as Guglielmo with the Bavarian State Orchestra on tour in Hong Kong.

He collaborated with conductors like Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Gustavo Dudamel, Adam Fischer, Ton Koopman, Yannick Nézet-Seguin, Asher Fisch and Helmuth Rilling and made guest appearances with Lieder concerts in, among other places, Vienna, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC and Milan.

Besides Mozart baritone roles, Mathias Hausmann also sings parts like Conte di Luna (»Il trovatore«), Marcello (»La bohème«), Zurga (»Les Pêcheurs de Perles«) and Lescaut (in Puccini’s »Manon Lescaut«), and in the German repertory Amfortas (»Parsifal«) and Orest (»Elektra«). His contemporary repertoire includes, among other things, the part of Oskar Schindler in the premiere of Thomas Morse’s »Frau Schindler« and of Leopold Kupelwieser in Johanna Doderer’s »Schuberts Reise nach Atzenbrugg«.

2016‒2022 he has been an ensemble member of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, where he has appeared on stage in operas such as in the title roles in »Don Giovanni« and »Eugene Onegin«, as Dr Malatesta (»Don Pasquale«), as Danton (»Danton Tod«), as four villains (»Les Contes d’Hoffmann«), as Daniello (»Jonny spielt auf«), and as Marcello and Zurga.