Daniel Schmutzhard, baritone
The Austrian baritone begins
the season 2012/13 as Marcello in La Bohème at
the Oper Frankfurt, where he is a member since last season. During the season
he will perform Conte in Nozze di Figaro,
Eisenstein in Fledermaus and Heerrufer
in Lohengrin. In October 2012 he will
return to the Staatsoper unter den Linden and sing Sharpless in Madama Butterfly. Under René Jacobs he
will be on tour as Papageno in Zauberflöte in Amsterdam, Brussels,
Rome, Barcelona and Lissabon. At the Komische Oper Berlin he will sing the
concert version of Weill´s Kuhhandel.
In summer 2013 Daniel Schmutzhard will sing Papageno
in a new production of Zauberflöte at the Bregenzer Festspiele.
Prestigious concert highlights are Schubert´s Winterreise
at the Wiener Konzerthaus and a recital with Annette Dasch at the
Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. At the Leipziger Gewandhaus he will sing Orff´s Carmina Burana, under the baton of Tomas
Netopil the baritone part in Rachmaninoff´s Die
Glocken at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Mahler-Lieder with the Tiroler Landesorchester in his hometown
Innsbruck. In the near future he will have his debut at the Bayerische
Staatsoper München, the Opéra National de Paris and his debut with the Wiener
Philharmoniker.
Highlights of the last seasons were concerts with the
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in Berlin, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, his recital
debut at the Wiener Konzerthaus and at the Festival in Monfalcone, the world
premiere of Metanoia by Jens Joneleit
and Handel's Agrippina at the
Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the concert performance of Die Zauberflöte with René Jacobs during the Mozart Week in
Salzburg, Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Wiener
Staatsoper and Liszt's Die Legende der
heiligen Elisabeth at the Theater an der Wien. Since 2008 Daniel
Schmutzhard was e.g. at the Salzburger Festspiele, at the Theater an der Wien,
in the Tage der Alten Musik Innsbruck, the Glyndebourne Touring Opera (Papageno), and also to hear as Pagageno in the new production of Die Zauberflöte under René Jacobs at the
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. This production was published on CD by harmonia
mundi and was awarded with numerous international prizes. From 2005 to 2011
Daniel Schmutzhard was committed to the Volksoper
Conductors and stage directors with whom Daniel has
worked, are amongst others Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle, Sebastian
Weigle, Franz Welser-Möst, Bertrand de Billy, René Jacobs, Leopold Hager, Ulf
Schirmer Michael Güttler and Johannes Wildner, and Robert Carsen, Jossi Wieler,
William Kentridge, Marco Arturo Marelli, Vincent Boussard, Alfred Kirchner,
Ernst Josef Köpplinger.In addition to his work at the opera stage Daniel
Schmutzhard has also an excellent reputation as a concert, recital and oratorio
singer.
He has given concerts and song recitals in the Wiener Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Berlin
Philharmonie, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Kölner Philharmonie, Salle Pleyel
Paris, Salzburger Osterfestspiele and the Salzburger Mozartwoche.
The young Austrian baritone Daniel Schmutzhard studied
during his schooldays at the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium with Karlheinz Hanser
and continued his education at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst
Wien with Prof. Ralf Döring. He has won numerous international competitions,
including the Mozart Competition in Salzburg
and the international song contest "Das Lied" launched by Thomas
Quasthoff.