Andreas Scheibner, baritone

At the beginning of the season 2011/12 Andreas Scheibner sings in the Swiss premiere of Death and the Maiden at the Theater St. Gallen. Moreover hill will sing this season the Requiem by Brahms at the Philharmonie Berlin, he will give concerts at the Frauenkirche in Dresden, with works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Liszt. At the Opéra de Marseille, he celebrated in March 2011 a resounding success with his interpretation of Wozzeck by Alban Berg: In the title role, Andreas Scheibner is monumental, he acts and sings to ultimate perfection (La Provence); Wozzeck, presented by the luxury baritone Andreas Scheibner, is both terrific and pitiful, touching in his human weakness and deperate by his hallucinations (La Marseillaise).

In the previous seasons Kammersänger Andreas Scheibner appeared in the new production of Henze’s Prince of Homburg at the Theater an der Wien. Before that he sang in new productions at Opéra de Lille (Wozzeck), Oper Bonn (Hindemith’s Cardillac), at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Tristan und Isolde), at New Israeli Opera (Wozzeck), at the Schwetzinger Festspiele (world-premiere of Hölszky’s The Good God of Manhattan), at Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (The Good God of Manhattan and Penderecki’s The Devils of Loudon), at the Theater an der Wien (Bloch’s Macbeth), at Teatro Lirico Cagliari (Weber’s Euryanthe) and at Opéra National de Paris (Fledermaus and the world-premiere of Manoury’s opera K.). Andreas Scheibner appeared in numerous concerts at Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Philharmonie Köln, Victoria Hall Geneva, Accademia Santa Cecilia Roma, Teatro Comunlae Firenze as well as in Weimar, Zagreb, Trieste, Cagliari, Stavanger and Madrid. Further more he toured through South-America with the Dresdner Philharmonie.

During his successful carrer Andreas Scheibner sang together with orchestras such as New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Berlin, Münchner Philharmoniker, Gürzenich Orchester Köln, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Duisburger Philharmoniker, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Genève, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Symphony Orchestra of the Swedish Radio, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Orchestra Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the orchestras of RAI Torino and Milan. He guested at the Wiener Musikverein, at Salzburger Festspiele, at Brucknerfest Linz, at Beethovenfest Bonn, at the Granada Festival, at BBC London and at Suntory Hall Tokyo.

Andreas Scheibner worked together with renowned conductors such as Berio, Casadesus, Davies, Davis, Eschenbach, Ferro, Frühbeck, zu Guttenberg, Hager, Horvat, Karabchevsky, Kuhn, Luisi, Märkl, Metzmacher, Navarro, Ono, Perick, Schneider, Schreier, Sinopoli, Weil and Wildner and has made several guest appearances at the Wiener Staatsoper, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Oper Leipzig, Teatro La Fenice Venezia, Teatro Giuseppe Verdi Trieste and at the Opéra de Lyon. 

Andreas Scheibner was born in Dresden, became a soloist of the Dresdner Kreuzchor and studied at the Musikhochschule Dresden. Andreas Scheibner has been a soloist at the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden since 1983. Due to his artistic merits, Andreas Scheibner was invested as "Kammersänger" by the Ministry of Culture.