Soloist

Simon Schnorr

The Munich-born baritone Simon Schnorr studied singing at the Music Universities of Freiburg, Leipzig and Karlsruhe with Markus Goritzki, H. J. Beyer und Roland Hermann, attended masterclasses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and currently works with Margreet Honig in Amsterdam.

After graduation, from 2009 to 2016, he was a member of the ensemble at the Salzburger Landestheater, where he was able to develop the main roles in his voice range, playing parts such as Conte Almaviva (»Le nozze di Figaro«), Guilelmo (»Così fan tutte«), Papageno (»Die Zauberflöte«), Dandini (»La Cenerentola«), Eisenstein (»Die Fledermaus«) and the title roles in »Don Giovanni« and »Eugen Onegin«.

Alongside this, guest appearances took him to a variety of venues appearing in such roles as the Third Shepherd (»Daphne«) at the Hamburg State Opera, the Traveller (»Tod in Venedig«) at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Donner (»Das Rheingold«) and Ping (»Turandot«) at the Karlsruhe State Theatre and Daniello (»Jonny spielt auf«) at the German National Theatre Weimar.

In addition, he has been invited to the Salzburg Festival (Journalist in »Lulu«), the Glyndebourne Festival (»Eugen Onegin«), the Salzburg Easter Festival (4th Esquire in »Parsifal«), the Edinburgh Festival, the St. Margarethen Opera Festival, the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Verbier Festival and performed alongside John Malkovich in the latter's music theatre project »The Giacomo Variations«.

Alongside his opera work, Simon Schnorr has established himself as a versatile concert singer in such works at Monteverdi's »Marienvesper«, the passions and cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach in venues including the Konzerthaus Berlin, Georg Friedrich Handel's oratorios, Gustav Mahler's »Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen« in the Herkulessaal in Munich, Carl Orff's »Carmina Burana« in the Philharmonie Essen and Johannes Brahms' »Ein deutsches Requiem« in the Zurich Tonhalle and the Victoria Hall, Geneva.

He has worked with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, the Vienna Academy Orchestra, Ensemble Resonanz and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Marc Albrecht, Michael Boder, Anthony Bramall, Jacques Delacote, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and Martin Haselböck and directors including Christof Loy, Peter Stein, Vera Nemirova, Eike Gramss and Gerd Heinz.