WIENER AKADEMIE
The Giacomo Variations - scenes of operas by Mozart and Da Ponte
May - June, 2013 - New York / Montreal / Toronto
Martin Haselböck, conductor
John Malkovich as Giacomo Casanova

OPER FRANKFURT
Verdi / Don Carlo - Rodrigo
May 3, 5, 9 - 2013
Wagner / Rienzi - Paolo Orsini
May 17, 20 - 2013

BREGENZER FESTSPIELE
Mozart / Die Zauberflöte - Papageno
July - Aug 2013

SCHUBERTIADE SCHWAZENBERG
Recital - Schumann, Schubert
Sept 6, 2013
Helmut Deutsch, piano



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.